Cameron Laird wrote: > Your interactive session does indeed exhibit the behavior that > puzzles me. My expectation was that StringIO and the std* > parameters to Popen() were made for each other; certainly there > are many cases where stdout and stderr can be redirected *to* a > StringIO. Is it simply the case that stdin demands a more > file-like object? While that disappoints me, I certainly can > program around it. My question, then: does stdin effectively > require something really in the filesystem, or perhaps the > stdout of a previous subprocess? Is there no built-in way to > feed it an in-memory construct?
set the appropriate stream to subprocess.PIPE, and write to it. p = subprocess.Popen(..., stdin=subprocess.PIPE) p.stdin.write("hello") p.stdin.close() # signal end of file </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list