> I've read that this sort of thing can be a pain. I'm sure someone will > post and have other views though. I have had some success using > Python's threading module though. There's a pretty good walkthrough > here (it uses wxPython in its example): > > http://wiki.wxpython.org/LongRunningTasks > > Other places of interest include: > > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/491281http://uucode.com/texts/pylongopgui/pyguiapp.htmlhttp://sayspy.blogspot.com/2007/11/idea-for-process-concurrency.html > > If I were doing something like this, I would have the process write > it's output to a file and periodically check to see if the file has > data. > > Hopefully someone with more knowledge will come along soon. > > Mike
Darn. Is threading the only way to do it? I was hoping not to have to avoid that. Would have thought that there might be a way for subprocess to handle this automatically. Thanks for your help, Brian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list