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diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index bc0ef0b..2855d01 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -104,17 +104,21 @@ in the child process prior to executing the command.
If env is not None, it defines the environment variables for the new
process.
-If universal_newlines is false, the file objects stdin, stdout and stderr
+If universal_newlines is False, the file objects stdin, stdout and stderr
are opened as binary files, and no line ending conversion is done.
-If universal_newlines is true, the file objects stdout and stderr are
-opened as a text files, but lines may be terminated by any of '\n',
+If universal_newlines is True, the file objects stdout and stderr are
+opened as a text file, but lines may be terminated by any of '\n',
the Unix end-of-line convention, '\r', the old Macintosh convention or
'\r\n', the Windows convention. All of these external representations
are seen as '\n' by the Python program. Also, the newlines attribute
of the file objects stdout, stdin and stderr are not updated by the
communicate() method.
+In either case, the process being communicated with should start up
+expecting to receive bytes on its standard input and decode them with
+the same encoding they are sent in.
+
The startupinfo and creationflags, if given, will be passed to the
underlying CreateProcess() function. They can specify things such as
appearance of the main window and priority for the new process.
@@ -184,6 +188,9 @@ check_output(*popenargs, **kwargs):
pass a string to the subprocess's stdin. If you use this argument
you may not also use the Popen constructor's "stdin" argument.
+ If universal_newlines is set to True, the "input" argument must
+ be a string rather than bytes, and the return value will be a string.
+
Exceptions
----------
Exceptions raised in the child process, before the new program has
@@ -225,9 +232,13 @@ wait()
communicate(input=None)
Interact with process: Send data to stdin. Read data from stdout
and stderr, until end-of-file is reached. Wait for process to
- terminate. The optional input argument should be a string to be
+ terminate. The optional input argument should be data to be
sent to the child process, or None, if no data should be sent to
- the child.
+ the child. If the Popen instance was constructed with universal_newlines
+ set to True, the input argument should be a string and will be encoded
+ using the preferred system encoding (see locale.getpreferredencoding);
+ if universal_newlines is False, the input argument should be a
+ byte string.
communicate() returns a tuple (stdout, stderr).
@@ -354,10 +365,7 @@ import signal
import builtins
import warnings
import errno
-try:
- from time import monotonic as _time
-except ImportError:
- from time import time as _time
+from time import monotonic as _time
# Exception classes used by this module.
class SubprocessError(Exception): pass
@@ -453,15 +461,11 @@ if mswindows:
raise ValueError("already closed")
def __repr__(self):
- return "Handle(%d)" % int(self)
+ return "%s(%d)" % (self.__class__.__name__, int(self))
__del__ = Close
__str__ = __repr__
-try:
- MAXFD = os.sysconf("SC_OPEN_MAX")
-except:
- MAXFD = 256
# This lists holds Popen instances for which the underlying process had not
# exited at the time its __del__ method got called: those processes are wait()ed
@@ -591,8 +595,8 @@ def check_output(*popenargs, timeout=None, **kwargs):
... input=b"when in the course of fooman events\n")
b'when in the course of barman events\n'
- If universal_newlines=True is passed, the return value will be a
- string rather than bytes.
+ If universal_newlines=True is passed, the "input" argument must be a
+ string and the return value will be a string rather than bytes.
"""
if 'stdout' in kwargs:
raise ValueError('stdout argument not allowed, it will be overridden.')
@@ -916,14 +920,35 @@ class Popen(object):
self._devnull = os.open(os.devnull, os.O_RDWR)
return self._devnull
+ def _stdin_write(self, input):
+ if input:
+ try:
+ self.stdin.write(input)
+ except BrokenPipeError:
+ # communicate() must ignore broken pipe error
+ pass
+ except OSError as e:
+ if e.errno == errno.EINVAL and self.poll() is not None:
+ # Issue #19612: On Windows, stdin.write() fails with EINVAL
+ # if the process already exited before the write
+ pass
+ else:
+ raise
+ self.stdin.close()
+
def communicate(self, input=None, timeout=None):
"""Interact with process: Send data to stdin. Read data from
stdout and stderr, until end-of-file is reached. Wait for
- process to terminate. The optional input argument should be
- bytes to be sent to the child process, or None, if no data
- should be sent to the child.
+ process to terminate.
+
+ The optional "input" argument should be data to be sent to the
+ child process (if self.universal_newlines is True, this should
+ be a string; if it is False, "input" should be bytes), or
+ None, if no data should be sent to the child.
- communicate() returns a tuple (stdout, stderr)."""
+ communicate() returns a tuple (stdout, stderr). These will be
+ bytes or, if self.universal_newlines was True, a string.
+ """
if self._communication_started and input:
raise ValueError("Cannot send input after starting communication")
@@ -936,13 +961,7 @@ class Popen(object):
stdout = None
stderr = None
if self.stdin:
- if input:
- try:
- self.stdin.write(input)
- except OSError as e:
- if e.errno != errno.EPIPE and e.errno != errno.EINVAL:
- raise
- self.stdin.close()
+ self._stdin_write(input)
elif self.stdout:
stdout = _eintr_retry_call(self.stdout.read)
self.stdout.close()
@@ -1191,21 +1210,7 @@ class Popen(object):
self.stderr_thread.start()
if self.stdin:
- if input is not None:
- try:
- self.stdin.write(input)
- except OSError as e:
- if e.errno == errno.EPIPE:
- # communicate() should ignore pipe full error
- pass
- elif (e.errno == errno.EINVAL
- and self.poll() is not None):
- # Issue #19612: stdin.write() fails with EINVAL
- # if the process already exited before the write
- pass
- else:
- raise
- self.stdin.close()
+ self._stdin_write(input)
# Wait for the reader threads, or time out. If we time out, the
# threads remain reading and the fds left open in case the user
@@ -1320,16 +1325,6 @@ class Popen(object):
errread, errwrite)
- def _close_fds(self, fds_to_keep):
- start_fd = 3
- for fd in sorted(fds_to_keep):
- if fd >= start_fd:
- os.closerange(start_fd, fd)
- start_fd = fd + 1
- if start_fd <= MAXFD:
- os.closerange(start_fd, MAXFD)
-
-
def _execute_child(self, args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
pass_fds, cwd, env,
startupinfo, creationflags, shell,
@@ -1426,9 +1421,8 @@ class Popen(object):
if errpipe_data:
try:
_eintr_retry_call(os.waitpid, self.pid, 0)
- except OSError as e:
- if e.errno != errno.ECHILD:
- raise
+ except ChildProcessError:
+ pass
try:
exception_name, hex_errno, err_msg = (
errpipe_data.split(b':', 2))
@@ -1512,9 +1506,7 @@ class Popen(object):
"""All callers to this function MUST hold self._waitpid_lock."""
try:
(pid, sts) = _eintr_retry_call(os.waitpid, self.pid, wait_flags)
- except OSError as e:
- if e.errno != errno.ECHILD:
- raise
+ except ChildProcessError:
# This happens if SIGCLD is set to be ignored or waiting
# for child processes has otherwise been disabled for our
# process. This child is dead, we can't get the status.
@@ -1626,12 +1618,9 @@ class Popen(object):
self._input_offset + _PIPE_BUF]
try:
self._input_offset += os.write(key.fd, chunk)
- except OSError as e:
- if e.errno == errno.EPIPE:
- selector.unregister(key.fileobj)
- key.fileobj.close()
- else:
- raise
+ except BrokenPipeError:
+ selector.unregister(key.fileobj)
+ key.fileobj.close()
else:
if self._input_offset >= len(self._input):
selector.unregister(key.fileobj)