I'm using subprocess to carry out svn commands (probably should use the svn api package, but that's a dependency too far). Anyhow my code looks like
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE p = Popen((svn,'ls',u),stdout=PIPE,stderr=PIPE) i = p.wait() and this sort of thing works well under most circumstances. However, when this code is executed for the very first time by a particular user it hangs waiting on user input. This code is being used purely for testing correctness of a particular svn url so in the normal case we want to throw away both stdout and stderr. In the exceptional case is it possible to detect that input is required and only in that case issue the current contents of stdout (presumably a request for a password)? Clearly I need to supply some kind of input filelike object, but is this sort of thing possible. -- Robin Becker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list