pyguy added the comment:
The program does not work the way I wanted it to. I want the output of the top
command to be seen only by the python program. The program I made causes the
top command to print its output to the terminal. Using subprocess.Popen() with
stdout=subprocess.PIPE does
pyguy added the comment:
Using communicate fixed the problem. Here is the program that works for me on
Mac OS 10.4.11 with Python 2.7.12:
import subprocess
import time
print("Launch started")
program_name = "top"
list = [program_name]
process = subprocess.Popen(list
pyguy added the comment:
The program failed for me on Mac OS 10.4.11 using Python 2.7.12 and Mac OS
10.6.8 using Python 2.7.13.
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status: pending -> open
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New submission from pyguy:
When I use the subprocess module to run a another process, I expect to be able
to read the STDOUT and STDERR of the other process. This is not possible on Mac
OS X. The attached test program has been tested on Linux and Windows and does
work as expected. It pauses
