popen2.Popen3 and slightly large output

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Mike Wakerly <mikew at wakerly.com>:
...
| However, I have encountered a behaviour in
| popen2.Popen3 that I cannot fully explain; rather I
| can only gruffly mumble things about 'buffers getting
| filled' and such...

No doubt that's it.

| What can cause this? My suspicion is that somehow, the
| output is buffered, and somehow, inspecting fromchild
| flushes said buffer, and the process completes. I have
| yet to inspect the actual Popen3 implementation

Tsk.  It's in popen2.py in your library directory.  Take a
look.  There really isn't much to it, and you are almost
guaranteed to learn something useful.

	Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com