I wrote: > [...] Pipe loops are tricky business. > > Popular solutions are to make either the input or output stream > a disk file, or to create another thread (or process) to be an > active reader or writer.
Or asynchronous I/O. On Unix-like systems, you can select() on the underlying file descriptors. (MS-Windows async mechanisms are not as well exposed by the Python standard library.) -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
