[Python-Dev] Behavior change in subprocess.py (original) (raw)

Delaney, Timothy (Tim) tdelaney at avaya.com
Fri Jul 21 02:44:39 CEST 2006

Hah - just found it. I even remember reading it...

I'll update the SF tracker (1526203) with your analysis.

Tim Delaney

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[mailto:python-dev-bounces+tdelaney=avaya.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Jacobs <jacobs at bioinformed.com> Sent: Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:33 AM To: python-dev at python.org Subject: [Python-Dev] Behavior change in subprocess.py

During my testing of Python 2.5b2, I've found something that may

be worthy of discussion. I suspect that recent GC and finalization changes have altered the behavior of the Popen object in subprocess.py. I am now getting many many many finalization warnings in my code like: 

Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'NoneType' object has no

attribute 'append'" in <bound method Popen.__del__ of <subprocess.Popen object at 0x2aaaab910950>> ignored

Is this a bug or a feature?  Personally, I'd like to see these

messages silenced, since it is being generated during interpreter shutdown. The following patch does the trick for me: 

--- /usr/local/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py      2006-07-11

14:11:59.000000000 -0400 +++ subprocess.py 2006-07-12 10:17:09.000000000 -0400 @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ return # In case the child hasn't been waited on, check if it's done. self.poll(_deadstate=sys.maxint) - if self.returncode is None: + if self.returncode is None and _active is not None: # Child is still running, keep us alive until we can wait on it. _active.append(self)

Note that popen.py does something similar, though I am not

convinced that the test is right or if it is doing something more subtle:

    def __del__(self):
        # In case the child hasn't been waited on, check if it's

done. self.poll(_deadstate=sys.maxint) if self.sts < 0: if _active: # Child is still running, keep us alive until we can wait on it. _active.append(self) 

Regards,
-Kevin

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