proc communicate not exiting on python subprocess timeout

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proc communicate not exiting on python subprocess timeout - leoonardoo - Sep-13-2017

Hello,

the script below (a python process is called, which calls a waitfor cmd with a timeout of 4 seconds) is supposed to end after 4 seconds. But instead proc.communicate stops after the 20 seconds timeout.

Why???

import subprocess
if __name__ == "__main__":
  proc_str = ["C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Anaconda3\\Python.exe",
                        "-c", "import 
  subprocess;subprocess.run('cmd /S /C waitfor g /t 200', shell=False, timeout=4)"]
  proc = subprocess.Popen(proc_str,
                            stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
                            stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                            stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                            shell=False,
                            universal_newlines=True)
  (proc_out, proc_err) = proc.communicate(timeout=20)
  if (proc.returncode == 0):
     pass