I need to read a large amount of data that is being returned in standard output by a shell script I am calling.
(I think the script should really be writing to a file but I have no control over that) Currently I have the following code. It seeems to work, however I suspect this may not work with large amounts of standard output. What is the best way to read a large amount of data from standard output and write to a file? Here is my code. process=subprocess.Popen(['myscript', 'param1'], shell=False,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE) cmdoutput=process.communicate() myfile = open('/home/john/myoutputfile','w') myfile.write(cmdoutput[0]) myfile.close() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list