Experimenting with subprocess control

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import time
import subprocess
from syslog import syslog

def run():

	#cmd = ['ifconfig']
	cmd = ['ping', '-c', '3', 'google.com']
	p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

	mark = time.time()

	while (time.time()-mark) < 200:
		syslog(p.stdout.readline())
		if p.poll() is not None:
			break
	try:
		p.kill()
		print 'killed'
	except:
		print 'done'


run()