Kill VirusTreeSimulator after x number of failures to coalesce about favites HOT 4 CLOSED

Possible solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22227569/check-a-condition-while-running-subprocess

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Potential Stack Overflow post to ask if I can't figure it out:

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I have a Python 3 script that calls an external tool that repeats itself until it succeeds, and depending on parameter choices to the tool, it may quickly (e.g. instantly) succeed, it may take a few times to succeed, or it may (seemingly) never succeed. When it fails, the tool prints in a manner like this:

Failed to coalesce lineages: 1
Failed to coalesce lineages: 2
Failed to coalesce lineages: 3
...

I am calling the tool like this:

subprocess.call(command, stdout=open("log.txt",'w'))

I want to kill the subprocess call (and throw an error message) after a certain number of failures occur, e.g. when the log file I'm redirecting to has the string Failed to coalesce lineages: 100 in it (meaning the tool failed 100 times). How can I do this cleanly?

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Potentially fixed in 1b4e9df

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Fix has been integrated into an official release (1.1.1): https://github.com/niemasd/FAVITES/releases/tag/1.1.1

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