[Python-Dev] PEP 324: popen5 - New POSIX process module (original) (raw)

Peter Astrand astrand at lysator.liu.se
Tue Jan 6 09:30:40 EST 2004

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Guido van Rossum wrote:

What I'm looking for in standard library additions is "category-killers". IMO good recent examples are optparse and the logging module. Both were in active use and had independent distributions with happy users before they were accepted into the standard library.

Thanks, this is very useful feedback.

For the code, I think that a Windows version is essential. It would be okay if a small amount of code (e.g. making some basic Windows APIs available, like CreateProcess) had to be coded in C, as long as the bulk could still be in Python. I really like having this kind of code in Python -- it helps understanding the fine details, and it allows subclassing more easily.

Sounds good to me.

I also wonder if more support for managing a whole flock of subprocesses might not be a useful addition; this is a common need in some applications. And with this, I'd like to see explicit support (somehow -- maybe through a separate class) for managing "daemon" processes. This certainly is a common need!

I'll put this on the TODO list.

-- /Peter Åstrand <astrand at lysator.liu.se>

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