David Pratt wrote: > Hi David and Matt. I appreciate your help which has got me moving > forward again so many thanks for your reply. I have been using > subprocess.Popen a fair bit but this was the first time I had to use > subprocess to capture large file output. The trouble I was having was > with the process would just hang. Chunking was the solution. I guess I > assumed this would be taken care of in the internals. > > Overall, I wish subprocess had some better documentation since it is > definitely not a drop in replacement for os.system. In other > circumstances I am using subprocess.call() for simple calls which works > fine. > > The speed of this solution is slower than os.system. Would a queue of > some kind be needed to speed this up? Has anyone implemented something > like this? Many thanks. > > Regards, > David
Did you see my second message? That should help performance. If not, I'm totally out of my depth and have no idea at all. Sorry. (How much slower? 10%? 200%?) -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list