[Idle-dev] Idle does not open on mac

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/23/2013 1:43 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
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> On 23 Aug, 2013, at 3:54, Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Probably the proper solution would use pipes instead of sockets.
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> I agree that using pipes (or even socketpair() sockets) would be cleaner than the current solution, but would that work on Windows? The current solution has the advantage of working on Linux, Windows and OSX without having separate implementations for some of the platforms.

I presume that subprocess.Popen.communicate 'works' on Windows, as the 
docs say nothing otherwise. But I do not know if there are (still) 
latency issues.

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Terry Jan Reedy