a few linux/unix related questions
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
shaleh at valinux.com
Sat Feb 17 02:07:52 EST 2001
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:19:38PM +1100, Ben de Luca wrote:
> I was wondering how i catch various signals in nix python so i can exit my
> programs gracefully?
>
import signal
> also how might i start another application then have two way communication
> between it's shell and the python program that started it?
>
os.popen() # just like in C
DESCRIPTION
The popen() function opens a process by creating a pipe,
forking, and invoking the shell. Since a pipe is by defi-
nition unidirectional, the type argument may specify only
reading or writing, not both; the resulting stream is cor-
respondingly read-only or write-only.
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