On 2008-03-21, harrelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get the below code to work and can't quite make things > happen. This is with Python 2.5.1. Dialog is doing something odd... > I have tinkered with different combinations and I can't get the dialog > to show properly-- it does show properly directly in the shell. Any > hints? > > import subprocess > command = '/usr/bin/dialog --clear --title "title" --menu "text" 20 50 > 5 "a" "this and that" "c" "3 this and that" "b" "2 this and that" "d" > "4 this and that"' > proc = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, > stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) > #proc = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) > stderr_value = proc.communicate()[0] > print stderr_value
[It would be helpful if you didn't wrap sample code when you post it.] dialog displays the widget on stdout. You've connected stdout to a pipe, so you're not going to see anything displayed unless you read data from the stdout pipe and write it to the terminal. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Boy, am I glad it's at only 1971... visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list