python - 停止在 Python 中读取进程输出而不挂起？

Question

我有一个 Linux 的 Python 程序几乎看起来像这样:

import os
import time

process = os.popen("top").readlines()

time.sleep(1)

os.popen("killall top")

print process

程序卡在这一行:

process = os.popen("top").readlines()

这发生在保持更新输出如“Top”的工具中

我最好的尝试:

import os
import time
import subprocess

process = subprocess.Popen('top')

time.sleep(2)

os.popen("killall top")

print process

它比第一个效果更好(它被 kelled )，但它返回:

<subprocess.Popen object at 0x97a50cc>

二审:

import os
import time
import subprocess

process = subprocess.Popen('top').readlines()

time.sleep(2)

os.popen("killall top")

print process

与第一个相同。由于“readlines()”而挂起

它的返回应该是这样的:

top - 05:31:15 up 12:12,  5 users,  load average: 0.25, 0.14, 0.11
Tasks: 174 total,   2 running, 172 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  9.3%us,  3.8%sy,  0.1%ni, 85.9%id,  0.9%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1992828k total,  1849456k used,   143372k free,   233048k buffers
Swap:  4602876k total,        0k used,  4602876k free,  1122780k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
31735 Barakat   20   0  246m  52m  20m S 19.4  2.7  13:54.91 totem              
 1907 root      20   0 91264  45m  15m S  1.9  2.3  38:54.14 Xorg               
 2138 Barakat   20   0 17356 5368 4284 S  1.9  0.3   3:00.15 at-spi-registry    
 2164 Barakat    9 -11  164m 7372 6252 S  1.9  0.4   2:54.58 pulseaudio         
 2394 Barakat   20   0 27212 9792 8256 S  1.9  0.5   6:01.48 multiload-apple    
 6498 Barakat   20   0 56364  30m  18m S  1.9  1.6   0:03.38 pyshell            
    1 root      20   0  2880 1416 1208 S  0.0  0.1   0:02.02 init               
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.12 migration/0        
    4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:02.07 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    9 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.43 events/0           
   11 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cpuset             
   12 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 khelper            
   13 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 netns              
   14 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 async/mgr          
   15 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pm

并保存在变量“process”中。伙计们，我真的被困住了吗？

Answer 1

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Start process; wait 2 seconds; kill the process; print all process output."""
import subprocess
import tempfile
import time

def main():
    # open temporary file (it automatically deleted when it is closed)
    #  `Popen` requires `f.fileno()` so `SpooledTemporaryFile` adds nothing here
    f = tempfile.TemporaryFile() 

    # start process, redirect stdout
    p = subprocess.Popen(["top"], stdout=f)

    # wait 2 seconds
    time.sleep(2)

    # kill process
    #NOTE: if it doesn't kill the process then `p.wait()` blocks forever
    p.terminate() 
    p.wait() # wait for the process to terminate otherwise the output is garbled

    # print saved output
    f.seek(0) # rewind to the beginning of the file
    print f.read(), 
    f.close()

if __name__=="__main__":
    main()

只打印部分输出的类似尾部的解决方案

您可以在另一个线程中读取进程输出并将所需数量的最后一行保存在队列中:

import collections
import subprocess
import time
import threading

def read_output(process, append):
    for line in iter(process.stdout.readline, ""):
        append(line)

def main():
    # start process, redirect stdout
    process = subprocess.Popen(["top"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, close_fds=True)
    try:
        # save last `number_of_lines` lines of the process output
        number_of_lines = 200
        q = collections.deque(maxlen=number_of_lines) # atomic .append()
        t = threading.Thread(target=read_output, args=(process, q.append))
        t.daemon = True
        t.start()

        #
        time.sleep(2)
    finally:
        process.terminate() #NOTE: it doesn't ensure the process termination

    # print saved lines
    print ''.join(q)

if __name__=="__main__":
    main()

此变体要求 q.append() 是原子操作。否则输出可能会损坏。

signal.alarm()解决方案

你可以使用 signal.alarm()在指定超时后调用 process.terminate() 而不是在另一个线程中读取。虽然它可能不会与 subprocess 模块很好地交互。基于@Alex Martelli's answer :

import collections
import signal
import subprocess

class Alarm(Exception):
    pass

def alarm_handler(signum, frame):
    raise Alarm

def main():
    # start process, redirect stdout
    process = subprocess.Popen(["top"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, close_fds=True)

    # set signal handler
    signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, alarm_handler)
    signal.alarm(2) # produce SIGALRM in 2 seconds

    try:
        # save last `number_of_lines` lines of the process output
        number_of_lines = 200
        q = collections.deque(maxlen=number_of_lines)
        for line in iter(process.stdout.readline, ""):
            q.append(line)
        signal.alarm(0) # cancel alarm
    except Alarm:
        process.terminate()
    finally:
        # print saved lines
        print ''.join(q)

if __name__=="__main__":
    main()

此方法仅适用于 *nix 系统。如果 process.stdout.readline() 没有返回，它可能会阻塞。

threading.Timer解决方案

import collections
import subprocess
import threading

def main():
    # start process, redirect stdout
    process = subprocess.Popen(["top"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, close_fds=True)

    # terminate process in timeout seconds
    timeout = 2 # seconds
    timer = threading.Timer(timeout, process.terminate)
    timer.start()

    # save last `number_of_lines` lines of the process output
    number_of_lines = 200
    q = collections.deque(process.stdout, maxlen=number_of_lines)
    timer.cancel()

    # print saved lines
    print ''.join(q),

if __name__=="__main__":
    main()

这种方法也适用于 Windows。在这里，我使用了 process.stdout 作为可迭代对象；它可能会引入额外的输出缓冲，如果不需要，您可以切换到 iter(process.stdout.readline, "") 方法。如果进程未在 process.terminate() 上终止，则脚本将挂起。

无线程，无信号解决方案

import collections
import subprocess
import sys
import time

def main():
    args = sys.argv[1:]
    if not args:
        args = ['top']

    # start process, redirect stdout
    process = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, close_fds=True)

    # save last `number_of_lines` lines of the process output
    number_of_lines = 200
    q = collections.deque(maxlen=number_of_lines)

    timeout = 2 # seconds
    now = start = time.time()    
    while (now - start) < timeout:
        line = process.stdout.readline()
        if not line:
            break
        q.append(line)
        now = time.time()
    else: # on timeout
        process.terminate()

    # print saved lines
    print ''.join(q),

if __name__=="__main__":
    main()

此变体既不使用线程，也不使用信号，但它会在终端中产生乱码输出。如果 process.stdout.readline() 阻塞，它将阻塞。