Dieter Maurer wrote:
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> You just found out that this is not the case.
thanks I suppose I was being a moron.
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> The warning attached to "communicate"s docstring might have
> you averted: "Note: the data read is buffered in memory...
> do not use for large size".
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> If subprocess would
Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:22:52 +:
> I'm using a polling loop in a thread that looks approximately like this
>
> while 1:
> p = find_a_process()
> rc = p.poll()
> if rc is not None:
> out, err = p.communicate()
> #deal with
I'm using a polling loop in a thread that looks approximately like this
while 1:
p = find_a_process()
rc = p.poll()
if rc is not None:
out, err = p.communicate()
#deal with output etc
sleep(1)
the process p is opened using
p = Popen(cmd, stdin=PIPE, stdout=P
