下面是运行任意命令返回其标准输出数据的Python代码，或在非零退出码上引发异常:
proc = subprocess.Popen(
cmd,
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, # Merge stdout and stderr
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
shell=True)
communication用于等待进程退出:
stdoutdata, stderrdata = proc.communicate()
子进程模块不支持超时——杀死运行超过X秒的进程的能力——因此，通信可能需要很长时间才能运行。
在Windows和Linux上运行的Python程序中实现超时的最简单方法是什么?
当前回答
我有一个问题，我想终止一个多线程子进程，如果它花费的时间超过给定的超时长度。我想在Popen()中设置一个超时，但它不起作用。然后，我意识到Popen().wait()等于call()，所以我有了在.wait(timeout=xxx)方法中设置超时的想法，这最终工作了。因此，我是这样解决的:
import os
import sys
import signal
import subprocess
from multiprocessing import Pool
cores_for_parallelization = 4
timeout_time = 15 # seconds
def main():
jobs = [...YOUR_JOB_LIST...]
with Pool(cores_for_parallelization) as p:
p.map(run_parallel_jobs, jobs)
def run_parallel_jobs(args):
# Define the arguments including the paths
initial_terminal_command = 'C:\\Python34\\python.exe' # Python executable
function_to_start = 'C:\\temp\\xyz.py' # The multithreading script
final_list = [initial_terminal_command, function_to_start]
final_list.extend(args)
# Start the subprocess and determine the process PID
subp = subprocess.Popen(final_list) # starts the process
pid = subp.pid
# Wait until the return code returns from the function by considering the timeout.
# If not, terminate the process.
try:
returncode = subp.wait(timeout=timeout_time) # should be zero if accomplished
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
# Distinguish between Linux and Windows and terminate the process if
# the timeout has been expired
if sys.platform == 'linux2':
os.kill(pid, signal.SIGTERM)
elif sys.platform == 'win32':
subp.terminate()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
其他回答
没想到居然没人提到超时
Timeout 5 ping -c 3 somehost
显然，这并不适用于每个用例，但如果您处理的是一个简单的脚本，那么这是很难克服的。
mac用户也可以通过homebrew在coreutils中使用gtimeout。
Jcollado的答案可以使用线程来简化。定时器类:
import shlex
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from threading import Timer
def run(cmd, timeout_sec):
proc = Popen(shlex.split(cmd), stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
timer = Timer(timeout_sec, proc.kill)
try:
timer.start()
stdout, stderr = proc.communicate()
finally:
timer.cancel()
# Examples: both take 1 second
run("sleep 1", 5) # process ends normally at 1 second
run("sleep 5", 1) # timeout happens at 1 second
这是我的解决方案，我使用线程和事件:
import subprocess
from threading import Thread, Event
def kill_on_timeout(done, timeout, proc):
if not done.wait(timeout):
proc.kill()
def exec_command(command, timeout):
done = Event()
proc = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
watcher = Thread(target=kill_on_timeout, args=(done, timeout, proc))
watcher.daemon = True
watcher.start()
data, stderr = proc.communicate()
done.set()
return data, stderr, proc.returncode
在行动:
In [2]: exec_command(['sleep', '10'], 5)
Out[2]: ('', '', -9)
In [3]: exec_command(['sleep', '10'], 11)
Out[3]: ('', '', 0)
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-subprocess2提供了子流程模块的扩展，允许您等待一段时间，否则将终止。
因此，等待最多10秒的进程终止，否则kill:
pipe = subprocess.Popen('...')
timeout = 10
results = pipe.waitOrTerminate(timeout)
这与windows和unix兼容。"results"是一个字典，它包含"returnCode"，这是应用程序的返回(或None，如果它必须被杀死)，以及"actionTaken"。如果流程正常完成，则为“SUBPROCESS2_PROCESS_COMPLETED”，或者根据所采取的操作，为“SUBPROCESS2_PROCESS_TERMINATED”和SUBPROCESS2_PROCESS_KILLED(详细信息请参阅文档)
我添加了从jcollado线程到我的Python模块easyprocess的解决方案。
安装:
pip install easyprocess
例子:
from easyprocess import Proc
# shell is not supported!
stdout=Proc('ping localhost').call(timeout=1.5).stdout
print stdout
