Interfacing with terminal programs

[Drifty]

I will keep that in mind.  I have a feeling that I am not going to
find a suitable answer to this in Python directly, but that is okay.
This seems to be more of UNIX scripting problem then a Python problem.
Thanks for the help.

-Brett Cannon



On Sat, 12 May 2001 13:40:56 +0400 (MSD), Oleg Broytmann
<phd at phd.fep.ru> wrote:

>On Sat, 12 May 2001, Drifty wrote:
>> change in a log file.  The problem is that I can't figure out how to
>> get Python to interface with the terminal program without deadlocking.
>> I tried using popen2 but it deadlocks when I read from the output fd.
>
>   You must always flush output before reading input. And even this is not
>a guarantee - the other program may forget to flush its output.
>
>Oleg.
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>     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
>           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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