Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

[Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net>]

Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:05:16AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
>   
> > So far I've coded everything as process oriented rather than object 
> > oriented as that is what I am familiar with, but I'm beginning to believe 
> > that using classes is probably the way to go as it would be much easier to 
> > abstract concepts out that way.  If someone has an example or two they 
> > could share with me on how to do interprocess piping in either oo or 
> > process oriented, or both, manner I would appreciate the help.
> >     
>
> Read the documentation for os.popen. It opens the command and it's
> stdin and stdout as pipes.
>
> The commands module might also be of interest.
>
> Kumar
>
>   
Thanks.
I got os.popen4 to sort of work, I think,  as it will capture stdout 
from the child process, but haven't figured out, yet, how to capture 
that and print it to the screen so I can read the headers.