* Chris Warrick <kwpol...@gmail.com> [151111 00:55]: > On 10 November 2015 at 23:47, Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> wrote: > > Using python 2.7.6 on ubuntu 14.04 <..> > There is no \n character at the end — which means that > p.stdout.readline() cannot return. In fact, if you printed repr() of > the line you read, you would get this: > > b'\r[download] 54.9% of 2.73MiB at 26.73KiB/s ETA 00:47\r[download] > 55.0% of 2.73MiB at 79.33KiB/s ETA 00:15\r…snip…\r[download] 100% of > 2.73MiB in 00:01\n' > > The download line is implemented using \r, which is the carriage > return character (return to the first character), and then by > overwriting characters that were already printed. > > The solution? There are numerous. I’ll help you by obscuring the worst one. > > (1) [recommended] figure out how to make youtube_dl work as a library, > read its main file to figure out the problem. Don’t mess with > subprocess. Was my first goal, had some problems, but I have solved them in part by finding the good documentation of the developers.
I.E., the subprocess method _is_ going away and I will be using the youtube_dl module. > (2) [don’t do it] do you need to intercept the lines? If you don’t set > stderr= and stdout=, things will print just fine. Got to try that before using the module, just for edification. > (3) [DON’T DO IT] .ernq() punenpgre ol punenpgre naq znxr n zrff. > > PS. Thank you for setting a sensible Reply-To header on your messages. > Which is something the list should be doing. LOL! Glad to help :) Thanks for the reply and the further education. Cheers -- Tim http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list