Robert wrote:
I have a command line app that can take up to 20 minutes to complete and every minute or so updates it's status (spits it out to console). I am writing a front end for this app in python/gtk and was wondering what command I use to a) invoke the command and b) how to capture it's out put and for instance update a text box.
os.popen() will probably do what you want.
e.g.:
(....)
As for the latter part of (b)....
I don't know much about pygtk, but I imagine you should be able to put the code that monitors the external program in a thread, and then whenever you get some new status information update the text box.
-Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
