Using Popen in a thread blocks every incoming Flask-SocketIO request
Thanks to this question I learned something new today. Eventlet does offer a greenlet friendly version of subprocess and its functions, but for some odd reason it does not monkey patch this module in the standard library.
Link to the eventlet implementation of subprocess: https://github.com/eventlet/eventlet/blob/master/eventlet/green/subprocess.py
Looking at the eventlet patcher, the modules that are patched are os, select, socket, thread, time, MySQLdb, builtins and psycopg2. There is absolutely no reference to subprocess in the patcher.
The good news is that I was able to work with Popen() in an application very similar to yours, after I replaced:
import subprocesswith:
from eventlet.green import subprocessBut note that the currently released version of eventlet (0.17.4) does not support the universal_newlines option in Popen, you will get an error if you use it. Support for this option is in master (here is the commit that added the option). You will either have to remove that option from your call, or else install the master branch of eventlet direct from github.