Q: how to "spawn" an external cmd and catch its stdin,stdout,stderr

[Michael Hudson]

Andreas Rozek <Andreas.Rozek at RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.De> writes:

> Hello!
> 
> This might be a silly question - but I could not find an answer in the
> Python FaQ - for that reason it might be worth asking:
> 
> is there any possibility to launch an external program (without repla-
> cing the current process - i.e., no os.exec* call alone) and catch the
> stdin, stderr and stdout IO streams (the latter also renders spawn and
> fork together with exec* unusable)?

There's popen2.popen3. That won't work on windows...
 
> A platform-independent solution  would be preferrable - however,  it's
> more important for me to get it for Windows 98!

but win32pipe might...

HTH
Michael