Starting a child process and getting its stdout?

[Tom Plunket]

cypher543 wrote:

> Thank you for the examples, but I have tried all of that before.

Did you try my example specifically?

> No matter what I do, my program always hangs while it waits for the
> process to exit and then it prints all of the output at once.
> 
> self.buildPID = subprocess.Popen(["python", "tobeforked.py"], ...

By default, python will execute in buffered mode if it's attached to a
pipe.  Start it with the '-u' command line option and you may be good to
go.  (`python -h` for more info on this, man pages may also discuss it.)

-tom!

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