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。

一种解决方案是让另一个进程执行对该进程的读取，或者创建一个带有超时的进程线程。

这是一个超时函数的线程版本:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/473878/

但是，是否需要在stdout传入时读取它? 另一种解决方案可能是将输出转储到一个文件中，然后使用p.t wait()等待进程完成。

f = open('myprogram_output.txt','w')
p = subprocess.Popen('myprogram.exe', stdout=f)
p.wait()
f.close()


str = open('myprogram_output.txt','r').read()

现有的解决方案不适合我(详情见下文)。最后成功的是使用read(1)实现readline(基于这个答案)。后者不阻塞:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from threading import Thread
def process_output(myprocess): #output-consuming thread
    nextline = None
    buf = ''
    while True:
        #--- extract line using read(1)
        out = myprocess.stdout.read(1)
        if out == '' and myprocess.poll() != None: break
        if out != '':
            buf += out
            if out == '\n':
                nextline = buf
                buf = ''
        if not nextline: continue
        line = nextline
        nextline = None

        #--- do whatever you want with line here
        print 'Line is:', line
    myprocess.stdout.close()

myprocess = Popen('myprogram.exe', stdout=PIPE) #output-producing process
p1 = Thread(target=process_output, args=(myprocess,)) #output-consuming thread
p1.daemon = True
p1.start()

#--- do whatever here and then kill process and thread if needed
if myprocess.poll() == None: #kill process; will automatically stop thread
    myprocess.kill()
    myprocess.wait()
if p1 and p1.is_alive(): #wait for thread to finish
    p1.join()

为什么现有的解决方案不起作用:

Solutions that require readline (including the Queue based ones) always block. It is difficult (impossible?) to kill the thread that executes readline. It only gets killed when the process that created it finishes, but not when the output-producing process is killed. Mixing low-level fcntl with high-level readline calls may not work properly as anonnn has pointed out. Using select.poll() is neat, but doesn't work on Windows according to python docs. Using third-party libraries seems overkill for this task and adds additional dependencies.

选择模块帮助您确定下一个有用的输入在哪里。

但是，您几乎总是更喜欢使用单独的线程。一个是阻塞读取stdin，另一个是阻塞你不想阻塞的地方。

试试asyncproc模块。例如:

import os
from asyncproc import Process
myProc = Process("myprogram.app")

while True:
    # check to see if process has ended
    poll = myProc.wait(os.WNOHANG)
    if poll != None:
        break
    # print any new output
    out = myProc.read()
    if out != "":
        print out

该模块负责S.Lott建议的所有线程。

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。