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"""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 types
__all__ = ["popen2", "popen3", "popen4"]
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()."""
sts = -1 # Child not completed yet
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."""
_cleanup()
p2cread, p2cwrite = os.pipe()
c2pread, c2pwrite = os.pipe()
if capturestderr:
errout, errin = os.pipe()
self.pid = os.fork()
if self.pid == 0:
# Child
os.dup2(p2cread, 0)
os.dup2(c2pwrite, 1)
if capturestderr:
os.dup2(errin, 2)
self._run_child(cmd)
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
_active.append(self)
def _run_child(self, cmd):
if isinstance(cmd, types.StringTypes):
cmd = ['/bin/sh', '-c', cmd]
for i in range(3, MAXFD):
try:
os.close(i)
except:
pass
try:
os.execvp(cmd[0], cmd)
finally:
os._exit(1)
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
class Popen4(Popen3):
childerr = None
def __init__(self, cmd, bufsize=-1):
_cleanup()
p2cread, p2cwrite = os.pipe()
c2pread, c2pwrite = os.pipe()
self.pid = os.fork()
if self.pid == 0:
# Child
os.dup2(p2cread, 0)
os.dup2(c2pwrite, 1)
os.dup2(c2pwrite, 2)
self._run_child(cmd)
os.close(p2cread)
self.tochild = os.fdopen(p2cwrite, 'w', bufsize)
os.close(c2pwrite)
self.fromchild = os.fdopen(c2pread, 'r', bufsize)
_active.append(self)
if sys.platform[:3] == "win":
# Some things don't make sense on non-Unix platforms.
del Popen3, Popen4
def popen2(cmd, bufsize=-1, mode='t'):
"""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
def popen3(cmd, bufsize=-1, mode='t'):
"""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
def popen4(cmd, bufsize=-1, mode='t'):
"""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:
def popen2(cmd, bufsize=-1, mode='t'):
"""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."""
inst = Popen3(cmd, 0, bufsize)
return inst.fromchild, inst.tochild
def popen3(cmd, bufsize=-1, mode='t'):
"""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."""
inst = Popen3(cmd, 1, bufsize)
return inst.fromchild, inst.tochild, inst.childerr
def popen4(cmd, bufsize=-1, mode='t'):
"""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."""
inst = Popen4(cmd, bufsize)
return inst.fromchild, inst.tochild
__all__.extend(["Popen3", "Popen4"])
def _test():
cmd = "cat"
teststr = "ab cd\n"
if os.name == "nt":
cmd = "more"
# "more" doesn't act the same way across Windows flavors,
# sometimes adding an extra newline at the start or the
# end. So we strip whitespace off both ends for comparison.
expected = teststr.strip()
print "testing popen2..."
r, w = popen2(cmd)
w.write(teststr)
w.close()
got = r.read()
if got.strip() != expected:
raise ValueError("wrote %s read %s" % (`teststr`, `got`))
print "testing popen3..."
try:
r, w, e = popen3([cmd])
except:
r, w, e = popen3(cmd)
w.write(teststr)
w.close()
got = r.read()
if got.strip() != expected:
raise ValueError("wrote %s read %s" % (`teststr`, `got`))
got = e.read()
if got:
raise ValueError("unexected %s on stderr" % `got`)
for inst in _active[:]:
inst.wait()
if _active:
raise ValueError("_active not empty")
print "All OK"
if __name__ == '__main__':
_test()