Nick Coghlan added the comment: Indeed, further discussion showed that what they were after was something more along the lines of sarge.Capture: http://sarge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html#main-features
That is, the ability to start the subprocess running in the background, and access the output line-by-line, but with the precise mechanics of how that works being a hidden implementation detail (just as concurrent.futures hides the details of the inter-process communication for function calls). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27050> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com