Function call

Lib/subprocess.py:387–401

Run command with arguments. Wait for command to complete or for timeout seconds, then return the returncode attribute. The arguments are the same as for the Popen constructor. Example: retcode = call(["ls", "-l"])

(*popenargs, timeout=None, **kwargs)

def call(*popenargs, timeout=None, **kwargs):
    """Run command with arguments.  Wait for command to complete or
    for timeout seconds, then return the returncode attribute.

    The arguments are the same as for the Popen constructor.  Example:

    retcode = call(["ls", "-l"])
    """
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:
        try:
            return p.wait(timeout=timeout)
        except:  # Including KeyboardInterrupt, wait handled that.
            p.kill()
            # We don't call p.wait() again as p.__exit__ does that for us.
            raise


def check_call(*popenargs, **kwargs):