jupyter_client/launcher.py

"""Utilities for launching kernels"""

# Copyright (c) Jupyter Development Team.
# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.

import os
import sys
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

from IPython.utils.encoding import getdefaultencoding
from IPython.utils.py3compat import cast_bytes_py2


def launch_kernel(cmd, stdin=None, stdout=None, stderr=None, env=None,
                        independent=False,
                        cwd=None,
                        **kw
                        ):
    """ Launches a localhost kernel, binding to the specified ports.

    Parameters
    ----------
    cmd : Popen list,
        A string of Python code that imports and executes a kernel entry point.

    stdin, stdout, stderr : optional (default None)
        Standards streams, as defined in subprocess.Popen.

    independent : bool, optional (default False)
        If set, the kernel process is guaranteed to survive if this process
        dies. If not set, an effort is made to ensure that the kernel is killed
        when this process dies. Note that in this case it is still good practice
        to kill kernels manually before exiting.

    cwd : path, optional
        The working dir of the kernel process (default: cwd of this process).

    Returns
    -------

    Popen instance for the kernel subprocess
    """

    # Popen will fail (sometimes with a deadlock) if stdin, stdout, and stderr
    # are invalid. Unfortunately, there is in general no way to detect whether
    # they are valid.  The following two blocks redirect them to (temporary)
    # pipes in certain important cases.

    # If this process has been backgrounded, our stdin is invalid. Since there
    # is no compelling reason for the kernel to inherit our stdin anyway, we'll
    # place this one safe and always redirect.
    redirect_in = True
    _stdin = PIPE if stdin is None else stdin

    # If this process in running on pythonw, we know that stdin, stdout, and
    # stderr are all invalid.
    redirect_out = sys.executable.endswith('pythonw.exe')
    if redirect_out:
        blackhole = open(os.devnull, 'w')
        _stdout = blackhole if stdout is None else stdout
        _stderr = blackhole if stderr is None else stderr
    else:
        _stdout, _stderr = stdout, stderr

    env = env if (env is not None) else os.environ.copy()

    encoding = getdefaultencoding(prefer_stream=False)
    kwargs = dict(
        stdin=_stdin,
        stdout=_stdout,
        stderr=_stderr,
        cwd=cwd,
        env=env,
    )

    # Spawn a kernel.
    if sys.platform == 'win32':
        # Popen on Python 2 on Windows cannot handle unicode args or cwd
        cmd = [ cast_bytes_py2(c, encoding) for c in cmd ]
        if cwd:
            cwd = cast_bytes_py2(cwd, sys.getfilesystemencoding() or 'ascii')
            kwargs['cwd'] = cwd

        from .win_interrupt import create_interrupt_event
        # Create a Win32 event for interrupting the kernel
        # and store it in an environment variable.
        interrupt_event = create_interrupt_event()
        env["JPY_INTERRUPT_EVENT"] = str(interrupt_event)
        # deprecated old env name:
        env["IPY_INTERRUPT_EVENT"] = env["JPY_INTERRUPT_EVENT"]

        try:
            from _winapi import DuplicateHandle, GetCurrentProcess, \
                DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS, CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP
        except:
            from _subprocess import DuplicateHandle, GetCurrentProcess, \
                DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS, CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP
        # Launch the kernel process
        if independent:
            kwargs['creationflags'] = CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP
        else:
            pid = GetCurrentProcess()
            handle = DuplicateHandle(pid, pid, pid, 0,
                                     True, # Inheritable by new processes.
                                     DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS)
            env['JPY_PARENT_PID'] = str(int(handle))

        proc = Popen(cmd, **kwargs)

        # Attach the interrupt event to the Popen objet so it can be used later.
        proc.win32_interrupt_event = interrupt_event

    else:
        if independent:
            kwargs['preexec_fn'] = lambda: os.setsid()
        else:
            env['JPY_PARENT_PID'] = str(os.getpid())

        proc = Popen(cmd, **kwargs)

    # Clean up pipes created to work around Popen bug.
    if redirect_in:
        if stdin is None:
            proc.stdin.close()

    return proc

__all__ = [
    'launch_kernel',
]