managing stdout and stderr neatly while doing parallel processing

[Alex Martelli]

Grant Edwards wrote:
   ...
>  3) use a pseudo-terminal (pty) so that your child process is running in a
>     more "natural" environment, and you'll get both stderr and stdout that
>     way too.  Don't know if there's handy Python "pty" module or not...

Well, there's http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-pty.html , but
I'm not sure if it counts as "handy"?


Alex