"""Examples using create_subprocess_exec() and create_subprocess_shell().""" import asyncio import signal from asyncio.subprocess import PIPE @asyncio.coroutine def cat(loop): proc = yield from asyncio.create_subprocess_shell("cat", stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE) print("pid: %s" % proc.pid) message = "Hello World!" print("cat write: %r" % message) stdout, stderr = yield from proc.communicate(message.encode('ascii')) print("cat read: %r" % stdout.decode('ascii')) exitcode = yield from proc.wait() print("(exit code %s)" % exitcode) @asyncio.coroutine def ls(loop): proc = yield from asyncio.create_subprocess_exec("ls", stdout=PIPE) while True: line = yield from proc.stdout.readline() if not line: break print("ls>>", line.decode('ascii').rstrip()) try: proc.send_signal(signal.SIGINT) except ProcessLookupError: pass @asyncio.coroutine def test_call(*args, timeout=None): try: proc = yield from asyncio.create_subprocess_exec(*args) exitcode = yield from asyncio.wait_for(proc.wait(), timeout) print("%s: exit code %s" % (' '.join(args), exitcode)) except asyncio.TimeoutError: print("timeout! (%.1f sec)" % timeout) loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() loop.run_until_complete(cat(loop)) loop.run_until_complete(ls(loop)) loop.run_until_complete(test_call("bash", "-c", "sleep 3", timeout=1.0)) loop.close()