Re: Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

On 3 Jul., 17:43, Scott David Daniels wrote: > yam850 wrote: > > I made a python method/function for nonblockingread from a file > > object I am happy to see comments. > OK, here's a fairly careful set of comments with a few caveats: [snip] valuable comments > --Scott David Daniels > scott.d

Re: Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

yam850 wrote: I made a python method/function for non blocking read from a file object I am happy to see comments. OK, here's a fairly careful set of comments with a few caveats: Does this work on windows? The top comment should say where you know it works. Does this code correctly read

Re: Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

On 1 Jul., 21:30, spillz wrote: > On Jun 29, 3:15 pm, Pascal Chambon wrote: > > I've had real issues with subprocesses recently : from a python script, > > on windows, I wanted to "give control" to a command line utility, i.e > > forward user in put to it and display its output on console. It see

Re: Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

Thank you all for the comments you might want something like Expect. Yes "Expect" deals with such things, unfortunately it's posix only (due to the PTY module requirement...); whereas I'd like to find generic ways (i.e at least windows/linux/mac recipes) The latter is inherently tricky (wh

Re: Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

On Jun 29, 5:43 pm, Scott David Daniels wrote: > and I personally wouldn't have it any other way. Simulating a shell > with hooks on its I/O should be so complicated that a "script kiddie" > has trouble writing a Trojan. +1 QOTW -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

On Jun 29, 3:15 pm, Pascal Chambon wrote: > Hello everyone > > I've had real issues with subprocesses recently : from a python script, > on windows, I wanted to "give control" to a command line utility, i.e > forward user in put to it and display its output on console. It seems > simple, but I ran

Re: Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

In message , ryles wrote: > On Jun 29, 5:43 pm, Scott David Daniels wrote: > >>and I personally wouldn't have it any other way. Simulating a shell >> with hooks on its I/O should be so complicated that a "script kiddie" >> has trouble writing a Trojan. > > +1 QOTW Trouble is, script kiddies, b

Re: Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

> So well, I'd like to know, do you people know any solution to this > simple problem - making a user interact directly with a subprocess? you might want something like Expect. check out the pexpect module: http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/pexpect.html -Corey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

In message , Pascal Chambon wrote: > I met the issue : select() works only on windows ... No it doesn't. It works only on sockets on Windows, on Unix/Linux it works with all file descriptors . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

Pascal Chambon wrote: I've had real issues with subprocesses recently : from a python script, on windows, I wanted to "give control" to a command line utility, i.e forward user in put to it and display its output on console Browsing the web, I found some hints : - use the advanced win32 api

Re: Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:15:52 +0200, Pascal Chambon wrote: > I've had real issues with subprocesses recently : from a python script, > on windows, I wanted to "give control" to a command line utility, i.e > forward user in put to it and display its output on console. Are you talking about a pope

Direct interaction with subprocess - the curse of blocking I/O

Hello everyone I've had real issues with subprocesses recently : from a python script, on windows, I wanted to "give control" to a command line utility, i.e forward user in put to it and display its output on console. It seems simple, but I ran into walls : - subprocess.communicate() only deal