下面是一个在python中支持非阻塞读和后台写的模块:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-nonblock

提供一个函数，

nonblock_read将从流中读取数据，如果可用，否则返回一个空字符串(或None，如果流在另一端关闭，并且所有可能的数据都已读取)

你也可以考虑python-subprocess2模块，

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-subprocess2

这将添加到子流程模块。所以在subprocess返回的对象上。Popen”被添加了一个额外的方法，runInBackground。这将启动一个线程并返回一个对象，该对象将在写入stdout/stderr时自动填充，而不会阻塞主线程。

享受吧!

我基于J. F. Sebastian的解决方案创建了一个库。你可以使用它。

https://github.com/cenkalti/what

在这里添加这个答案，因为它提供了在Windows和Unix上设置非阻塞管道的能力。

所有的ctypes细节都要感谢@techtonik的回答。

有一个稍微修改过的版本，可以在Unix和Windows系统上使用。

兼容Python3(只需要一些小的修改)。 包括posix版本，并定义了用于这两个版本的异常。

这样你就可以在Unix和Windows代码中使用相同的函数和异常。

# pipe_non_blocking.py (module)
"""
Example use:

    p = subprocess.Popen(
            command,
            stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
            )

    pipe_non_blocking_set(p.stdout.fileno())

    try:
        data = os.read(p.stdout.fileno(), 1)
    except PortableBlockingIOError as ex:
        if not pipe_non_blocking_is_error_blocking(ex):
            raise ex
"""


__all__ = (
    "pipe_non_blocking_set",
    "pipe_non_blocking_is_error_blocking",
    "PortableBlockingIOError",
    )

import os


if os.name == "nt":
    def pipe_non_blocking_set(fd):
        # Constant could define globally but avoid polluting the name-space
        # thanks to: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34504970
        import msvcrt

        from ctypes import windll, byref, wintypes, WinError, POINTER
        from ctypes.wintypes import HANDLE, DWORD, BOOL

        LPDWORD = POINTER(DWORD)

        PIPE_NOWAIT = wintypes.DWORD(0x00000001)

        def pipe_no_wait(pipefd):
            SetNamedPipeHandleState = windll.kernel32.SetNamedPipeHandleState
            SetNamedPipeHandleState.argtypes = [HANDLE, LPDWORD, LPDWORD, LPDWORD]
            SetNamedPipeHandleState.restype = BOOL

            h = msvcrt.get_osfhandle(pipefd)

            res = windll.kernel32.SetNamedPipeHandleState(h, byref(PIPE_NOWAIT), None, None)
            if res == 0:
                print(WinError())
                return False
            return True

        return pipe_no_wait(fd)

    def pipe_non_blocking_is_error_blocking(ex):
        if not isinstance(ex, PortableBlockingIOError):
            return False
        from ctypes import GetLastError
        ERROR_NO_DATA = 232

        return (GetLastError() == ERROR_NO_DATA)

    PortableBlockingIOError = OSError
else:
    def pipe_non_blocking_set(fd):
        import fcntl
        fl = fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_GETFL)
        fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, fl | os.O_NONBLOCK)
        return True

    def pipe_non_blocking_is_error_blocking(ex):
        if not isinstance(ex, PortableBlockingIOError):
            return False
        return True

    PortableBlockingIOError = BlockingIOError

为了避免读取不完整的数据，我最终编写了自己的readline生成器(它为每一行返回字节字符串)。

它是一个发电机，所以你可以例如…

def non_blocking_readlines(f, chunk=1024):
    """
    Iterate over lines, yielding b'' when nothings left
    or when new data is not yet available.

    stdout_iter = iter(non_blocking_readlines(process.stdout))

    line = next(stdout_iter)  # will be a line or b''.
    """
    import os

    from .pipe_non_blocking import (
            pipe_non_blocking_set,
            pipe_non_blocking_is_error_blocking,
            PortableBlockingIOError,
            )

    fd = f.fileno()
    pipe_non_blocking_set(fd)

    blocks = []

    while True:
        try:
            data = os.read(fd, chunk)
            if not data:
                # case were reading finishes with no trailing newline
                yield b''.join(blocks)
                blocks.clear()
        except PortableBlockingIOError as ex:
            if not pipe_non_blocking_is_error_blocking(ex):
                raise ex

            yield b''
            continue

        while True:
            n = data.find(b'\n')
            if n == -1:
                break

            yield b''.join(blocks) + data[:n + 1]
            data = data[n + 1:]
            blocks.clear()
        blocks.append(data)

I have often had a similar problem; Python programs I write frequently need to have the ability to execute some primary functionality while simultaneously accepting user input from the command line (stdin). Simply putting the user input handling functionality in another thread doesn't solve the problem because readline() blocks and has no timeout. If the primary functionality is complete and there is no longer any need to wait for further user input I typically want my program to exit, but it can't because readline() is still blocking in the other thread waiting for a line. A solution I have found to this problem is to make stdin a non-blocking file using the fcntl module:

import fcntl
import os
import sys

# make stdin a non-blocking file
fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
fl = fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_GETFL)
fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, fl | os.O_NONBLOCK)

# user input handling thread
while mainThreadIsRunning:
      try: input = sys.stdin.readline()
      except: continue
      handleInput(input)

在我看来，这比使用select或signal模块来解决这个问题要简洁一些，但它只适用于UNIX…

根据J.F. Sebastian的答案和其他几个来源，我组合了一个简单的子流程管理器。它提供了请求的非阻塞读取，以及并行运行几个进程。它不使用任何特定于操作系统的调用(我知道)，因此应该在任何地方工作。

它可以从pypi获得，所以只需pip安装shelljob。参考项目页面的示例和完整的文档。

我有最初提问者的问题，但不希望调用线程。我将Jesse的解决方案与来自管道的直接read()和我自己的行读取缓冲处理程序混合在一起(然而，我的子进程- ping -总是写入<系统页面大小的整行)。我通过读入一个gobject-registered io watch来避免忙碌的等待。这些天我通常在gobject MainLoop中运行代码以避免线程。

def set_up_ping(ip, w):
    # run the sub-process
    # watch the resultant pipe
    p = subprocess.Popen(['/bin/ping', ip], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    # make stdout a non-blocking file
    fl = fcntl.fcntl(p.stdout, fcntl.F_GETFL)
    fcntl.fcntl(p.stdout, fcntl.F_SETFL, fl | os.O_NONBLOCK)
    stdout_gid = gobject.io_add_watch(p.stdout, gobject.IO_IN, w)
    return stdout_gid # for shutting down

观察者是

def watch(f, *other):
    print 'reading',f.read()
    return True

主程序建立一个ping，然后调用gobject邮件循环。

def main():
    set_up_ping('192.168.1.8', watch)
    # discard gid as unused here
    gobject.MainLoop().run()

任何其他工作都附加到gobject中的回调。