Python script monitoring another process

[Grant Edwards]

In article <389089E8.32BB7710 at cs.brandeis.edu>, Magnus Bjornsson wrote:

>I'm new to Python so this is probably a typical newbie question...
>Anyway, I'm trying to build a Python script which does the following:
> 1. starts a process (that's easy)
> 2. checks the output from the process (from its stdout)
> 3. when a certain token is found in the process' output the script 
>    sends a new token to the process' stdin

The popen2 module lets you do this.

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