Glenn Linderman <[email protected]> added the comment:
So I've experimented a bit, and it looks like simply exposing ._readerthread as
an external API would handle the buffered case for stdout or stderr. For
http.server CGI scripts, I think it is fine to buffer stderr, as it should not
be a high-volume channel... but not both stderr and stdout, as stdout can be
huge. And not stdin, because it can be huge also.
For stdin, something like the following might work nicely for some cases,
including http.server (with revisions):
def _writerthread(self, fhr, fhw, length):
while length > 0:
buf = fhr.read( min( 8196, length ))
fhw.write( buf )
length -= len( buf )
fhw.close()
When the stdin data is buffered, but the application wishes to be stdout
centric instead of stdin centric (like the current ._communicate code), a
variation could be made replacing fhr by a data buffer, and writing it
gradually (or fully) to the pipe, but from a secondary thread.
Happily, this sort of code (the above is extracted from a test version of
http.server) can be implemented in the server, but would be more usefully
provided by subprocess, in my opinion.
To include the above code inside subprocess would just be a matter of tweaking
references to class members instead of parameters.
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