>>>>> "infidel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (i) wrote:
>i> .readlines() won't return until it hits end-of-file, but the "man" >i> command waits for user input to scroll the content, like the "more" or >i> "less" commands let you view "pages" of information on a terminal. man shouldn't wait for user input if its output is a pipe. Try man man|cat. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list