Interactive programs through Popen3

[Joe Smith]

I take it that you must be running on UNIX.  If I remember correctly, 1.5.2
says something about can't fork on Windows NT 4.0.  If I remember correctly,
popen2() and popen3() also have the same problem.  The doc should probably
state that the popen2 module/library does not work on NT.  It would probably
not be difficult to fix these so that they work right on windows NT, but since
I figured a way around the problem, I don't feel inspired.

Z Three Penguin wrote:

> When I try to run an interactive program (such as pico), reading the file
> object hangs the interpreter.  The code is:
>
> import popen2
> s=popen2.Popen3("pico")
> while s.poll()==-1:
>     print s.fromchild.read()
>     a=raw_input()
>     s.inchild.write(a)
>
> Any ideas?
>
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