"Webb" wrote: > (I am sure there is a recipe somewhere, but I can't find it.) How does > one open an editor while in the middle of an interactive program, let > the user do some editing and closing, and then capture the text that > was edited? I am reminded of subversion or CVS when they open an > $EDITOR session for the check-in log entry. > > I tried os.popen, but it fired off vim in the background--not useful. > Then I tried os.system, but that only returns the return code (126 in > my case) after you close the editor. Perhaps I need to write to a file > and read it
that's exactly how it's done in subversion and cvs, of course. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
