"""Spawn a command with pipes to its stdin, stdout, and optionally stderr. The normal os.popen(cmd, mode) call spawns a shell command and provides a file interface to just the input or output of the process depending on whether mode is 'r' or 'w'. This module provides the functions popen2(cmd) and popen3(cmd) which return two or three pipes to the spawned command. """ import os import sys import string MAXFD = 256 # Max number of file descriptors (os.getdtablesize()???) _active = [] def _cleanup(): for inst in _active[:]: inst.poll() class Popen3: """Class representing a child process. Normally instances are created by the factory functions popen2() and popen3().""" def __init__(self, cmd, capturestderr=0, bufsize=-1): """The parameter 'cmd' is the shell command to execute in a sub-process. The 'capturestderr' flag, if true, specifies that the object should capture standard error output of the child process. The default is false. If the 'bufsize' parameter is specified, it specifies the size of the I/O buffers to/from the child process.""" if type(cmd) == type(''): cmd = ['/bin/sh', '-c', cmd] p2cread, p2cwrite = os.pipe() c2pread, c2pwrite = os.pipe() if capturestderr: errout, errin = os.pipe() self.pid = os.fork() if self.pid == 0: # Child os.close(0) os.close(1) if os.dup(p2cread) <> 0: sys.stderr.write('popen2: bad read dup\n') if os.dup(c2pwrite) <> 1: sys.stderr.write('popen2: bad write dup\n') if capturestderr: os.close(2) if os.dup(errin) <> 2: pass for i in range(3, MAXFD): try: os.close(i) except: pass try: os.execvp(cmd[0], cmd) finally: os._exit(1) # Shouldn't come here, I guess os._exit(1) os.close(p2cread) self.tochild = os.fdopen(p2cwrite, 'w', bufsize) os.close(c2pwrite) self.fromchild = os.fdopen(c2pread, 'r', bufsize) if capturestderr: os.close(errin) self.childerr = os.fdopen(errout, 'r', bufsize) else: self.childerr = None self.sts = -1 # Child not completed yet _active.append(self) def poll(self): """Return the exit status of the child process if it has finished, or -1 if it hasn't finished yet.""" if self.sts < 0: try: pid, sts = os.waitpid(self.pid, os.WNOHANG) if pid == self.pid: self.sts = sts _active.remove(self) except os.error: pass return self.sts def wait(self): """Wait for and return the exit status of the child process.""" pid, sts = os.waitpid(self.pid, 0) if pid == self.pid: self.sts = sts _active.remove(self) return self.sts if hasattr(os, "popen2"): def popen2(cmd, mode='t', bufsize=-1): """Execute the shell command 'cmd' in a sub-process. If 'bufsize' is specified, it sets the buffer size for the I/O pipes. The file objects (child_stdout, child_stdin) are returned.""" w, r = os.popen2(cmd, mode, bufsize) return r, w else: def popen2(cmd, mode='t', bufsize=-1): """Execute the shell command 'cmd' in a sub-process. If 'bufsize' is specified, it sets the buffer size for the I/O pipes. The file objects (child_stdout, child_stdin) are returned.""" if type(mode) is type(0) and bufsize == -1: bufsize = mode mode = 't' assert mode in ('t', 'b') _cleanup() inst = Popen3(cmd, 0, bufsize) return inst.fromchild, inst.tochild if hasattr(os, "popen3"): def popen3(cmd, mode='t', bufsize=-1): """Execute the shell command 'cmd' in a sub-process. If 'bufsize' is specified, it sets the buffer size for the I/O pipes. The file objects (child_stdout, child_stdin, child_stderr) are returned.""" w, r, e = os.popen3(cmd, mode, bufsize) return r, w, e else: def popen3(cmd, mode='t', bufsize=-1): """Execute the shell command 'cmd' in a sub-process. If 'bufsize' is specified, it sets the buffer size for the I/O pipes. The file objects (child_stdout, child_stdin, child_stderr) are returned.""" if type(mode) is type(0) and bufsize == -1: bufsize = mode mode = 't' assert mode in ('t', 'b') _cleanup() inst = Popen3(cmd, 1, bufsize) return inst.fromchild, inst.tochild, inst.childerr if hasattr(os, "popen4"): def popen4(cmd, mode='t', bufsize=-1): """Execute the shell command 'cmd' in a sub-process. If 'bufsize' is specified, it sets the buffer size for the I/O pipes. The file objects (child_stdout_stderr, child_stdin) are returned.""" w, r = os.popen4(cmd, mode, bufsize) return r, w else: pass # not yet on unix def _test(): teststr = "abc\n" print "testing popen2..." r, w = popen2('cat') print r, w w.write(teststr) w.close() assert r.read() == teststr print "testing popen3..." try: r, w, e = popen3(['cat']) except: r, w, e = popen3('cat') print r, w, e w.write(teststr) w.close() assert r.read() == teststr assert e.read() == "" for inst in _active[:]: inst.wait() assert not _active print "All OK" if __name__ == '__main__': _test()