Ok, I could have researched this before posting, but here's an explanation how to do it with twisted:
http://unpythonic.blogspot.com/2007/08/spawning-subprocess-with-pygtk-using.html It seems that another solution is gobject.io_add_watch, but I don't see how it tells me how much I can read from the file - if I don't know that, I won't know the argument to give to the read() method in order to get all the data: http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygobject/gobject-functions.html#function-gobject--io-add-watch Noam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
