Hi, using e.g. import subprocess Package='app-arch/lzma-utils' EQ=subprocess.Popen(['/usr/bin/equery','depends',Package],stdout=subprocess.PIPE) EQ_output= EQ.communicate()[0]
EQ_output is a string containing multiple lines. I'd prefer a file-like object, e.g. EQ_OUT so that I can loop over the lines of it like for line in EQ_OUT : ... I could use StringIO.StringIO applied to EQ_output but this reads all of the command's output into a big string first. On Unix/Linux a pipe is a file-like object after all, so how to get hold of it. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
