On 09:27 am, rasjidw@gmail.com wrote:

I'll probably stick with stdin/stdout, at least initially, as I have done something along these lines before, just not within the twisted framework. Previously I used threading and emulated a non-blocking process through buffering the data read. I've been looking into non-blocking pipe reading in win32, and it looks like there are a coule of choices. Possibly the easiest I've seen so far uses some calls from wxWidgets which adds another dependancy but seems to give more control.

If you're going to use stdin/stdout, just use the Twisted reactor's "spawnProcess" method, as the UNIX version of Conch does (although without the "pty" feature). A great deal of trouble has already been put into making the Windows version of Twisted behave as if the operating system actually supported asynchronous interprocess communication.