From 98707c2cede1aa697a1338ea8f7c9a59da42dfe9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Reid Kleckner Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:23:08 -0400 Subject: Add Misc/NEWS "What's New" entry for subprocess timeouts. --- Misc/NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 545307a..8df6f4b 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1? Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #5673: Added a `timeout` keyword argument to subprocess.Popen.wait, + subprocess.Popen.communicated, subprocess.call, subprocess.check_call, and + subprocess.check_output. If the blocking operation takes more than `timeout` + seconds, the `subprocess.TimeoutExpired` exception is raised. + - Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch written by Charles-Francois Natali. -- cgit v0.12