On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Matt Herzog <m...@blisses.org> wrote: > Yes, thanks. What failed was the invocation of PIPE. Apparently I had to > explicitly import PIPE from subprocess or python had no clue as to what PIPE > was! > > Dare I say, "wtf?" since when fo I have to specify such? Shouldn't importing > the subprocess module make all its methods available? I can't remember having > to do this before.
It is really like any other module. If you just import subprocess, you can access all its methods and attributes by spelling it out: import subprocess handler = subprocess.Popen(['cat'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE) Or you can import just the names you will use in the global namespace: from subprocess import Popen, PIPE handler = Popen(['cat'], stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE) HTH, Tiago Saboga. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
