Divorcing Command Line and GUI

[David Bolen]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> Piece of cake -- just make sure your CL tools take a switch
> (-u or --unbuffered) to work without any input buffers on
> stdin/stdout, and similarly-unbuffered Python GUI front-ends
> will be easily able to drive them (after an os.popen2).

Or just pass the "-u" to python itself when running the command line
script - no changes to scripts required.

(Something I find extremely helpful to work with pre-existing scripts,
unlike Perl where you have to modify the script itself to enable
autoflushing.)

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-- David
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