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This is not a bug after all...
When you run a command through a shell script, kill the
script and waiting for it to return, any subcommands of the
script get reattached to init until they complete. If these
subcommands didn't close them, they still have descriptors
to the popen pipe through which they may write data. It is
then normal that reading the pipe should block until
completion, not only of the command invoqued but of all its
subprocesses as well. Very annoying for my purpose, but
definitively not a python bug.
Oh well, I thinks I'll stop talking to myself, now. I must
say I'm a bit disappointed at the nonexistent support and
help I got from this python bugzilla, though...