On Tue, Jul 12, 2016, at 02:27, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tuesday 12 July 2016 13:20, Veek. M wrote: > > I then need to get it translated which also works and then display in > > XTerm using cat. > > Why not just print it? Why do you have to use cat?
Well, displaying something in a new xterm (i.e. not one that already exists and is your controlling terminal) without a process to run "in" the terminal is rather esoteric and isn't portable to terminals other than xterm. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list