Interfacing with terminal programs

[Oleg Broytmann]

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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