Gabriel Genellina wrote: > On 7 ene, 16:33, "Fuzzyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip..] > > My current code works, but *doesn't* capture stderr : > > > > from threading import Thread > > > > pipe = os.popen(executable) > > > > def DisplayOutput(): > > while True: > > output = pipe.read(1) > > if not output: > > break > > display(output) > > > > Thread(target=DisplayOutput).start() > > > > All the best, > > > > Fuzzyman > > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml > > Try using popen4 instead. But since you already have a thread, it may > be better to use popen2 and two threads to read from stdout and stderr > to avoid a potential deadlock; they can put read lines into a Queue, > and DisplayOutput just get these lines in order. (See the warnings in > the popen2 module documentation). >
popen4 works great, I didn't even know it existed. Two threads and a queue sounds horrible. Thanks Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml > -- > Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
