(The email daemon was not in a happy place, so posting directly)

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> - perhaps improve the existing functions (kill_python() does a strange dance instead of calling communicate() on the subprocess.Popen object, is there a reason for that?)

script_helper just factored out the old test_cmd_line approach which
was in turn based on a minimalistic change from a popen2 based
implementation (see
http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_cmd_line.py?r1=54386&r2=55245).
Doing something smarter probably isn't a bad idea.