Nonblocking IO on popen pipe (isn't nonblocking)

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Noah" wrote:
> I could have sworn that I have seen interactive programs
> such as telnet and ftp scripted from Python.
>
> I looked at the pty stuff, but I was going to implement that
> AFTER I got pipes working. Pipes seem to be the most portable
> and intuitive way to solve this problem.

I'd say the most portable way is to forget about running external
commands, and use ftplib and telnetlib instead.

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