Smita Tewari wrote: > i'm absolutely clueless as to how to establish a link between the > terminal and the pygtk window. i don't know how to get the output of > a particular command run using os.system() on to the pygtk window so > that it takes some user input and then proceeds. instead it gives > the output on the terminal and takes user input and then proceeds, > which is not what i want as this means coming out of the GUI.
You cannot not use os.system if you wish to communicate with the spawned process: it does not redirect the standard input/output streams. For just one-way communication, look at the module popen. For both ways dialogues, the module subprocess (Python 2.4) will be more suited. You may also try pexpect (http://pexpect.sourceforge.net) which works with older versions of Python. In all cases, take care when reading the output from the process: it may be blocking and freeze the GUI. In order to read only when some data is actually available, use the Python module select or, with PyGTK, object.io_add_watch. Alternatively, with pexpect, there is a timeout parameter. Regards, Franck _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [email protected] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
