??? Re: popen2 bug?

[Roman Suzi]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Roman Suzi wrote:

>I came across unidentified difficulty when doing the following:
>
>>>> d = (("a"*120) + "\n") * 300     # prepare data
>>>> import popen2
>>>> a, b = popen2.popen2("grep a")   # pipe to/from grep setup
>>>> b.write(d)                       # trying to write... takes forever!

The same happens even when using "cat" instead of "grep"
and also it sometimes doesn't matter if \n is at the end or not.

That is, popen2.* are nearly unusable or I am very mistaken
about their use.

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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