cypher543 wrote: > This has been driving me insane for the last hour or so. I have search > everywhere, and nothing works. I am trying to use the subprocess module > to run a program and get its output line by line. But, it always waits > for the process to terminate and then return the output all at once. > > Can someone please show me some code that actually works for this sort > of thing? It doesn't even have to use the subprocess module. Don't > worry if the code isn't compatible with Windows. My program is targeted > at Linux/UNIX users. > > Thanks! >
try: Python 2.5c1 (r25c1:51305, Aug 17 2006, 17:07:04) [GCC 3.3.6] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import subprocess >>> cmd = "ls" >>> process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) >>> print process.stdout.read() For more info on how to do stdin and other things check out: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html Hope this helps. Adonis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list