[New-bugs-announce] [issue12877] Popen(...).stdout.seek(...) throws "Illegal seek"

[Jonas H.]

New submission from Jonas H. <jonas at lophus.org>:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
p = Popen(['ls'], stdout=PIPE)
p.wait()
p.stdout.seek(0)


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "t.py", line 5, in <module>
    p.stdout.seek(0)
IOError: [Errno 29] Illegal seek

Python 2.7.2, Arch Linux x86-64 (Kernel 3.0)

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messages: 143323
nosy: jonash
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Popen(...).stdout.seek(...) throws "Illegal seek"
versions: Python 2.7

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