Efrat Regev schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On May 1, 2:23 pm, Efrat Regev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> So my question is if there's a way to "grab" the output as it's being >>> generated. It doesn't matter if the solution is blocking (as opposed to >>> callback based), since threads can handle this. I just don't know how to >>> "grab" the output. I appreciate your time in reading (and answering >>> this), as I've been googling several hours for this. >> >> There may be more pythonic solution than what I suggest here but this >> is what I have done when I needed similar functionality. Basically run >> your command in the background and redirect its stdout/err to a temp >> file. You may run the command either in the background or in a >> separate thread. You can then run the command "tail --retry -- >> pid=<pid> -n+0 -F <output_file>" and grab the output. The tail command >> exits once the real command is done.
Or instead use the python subprocess module and read the commands stdin/out/err from the Popen-object. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list