15 Nov
2013
15 Nov
'13
7:41 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:28 PM, David Cournapeau cournape@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Charles R Harris <
charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
Sure, give it a shot. Looks like subprocess.Popen was intended to
replace os.system in any case.
Except that output is not 'real time' with straight Popen, and doing so
reliably on every platform (cough - windows - cough) is not completely trivial. You also have to handle buffered output, etc... That code is very fragile, so this would be quite a lot of testing to change, and I am not sure it worths it.
It doesn't have to be "real time". Just use .communicate() and print out the stdout and stderr to their appropriate streams after the subprocess finishes.
-- Robert Kern