Getting stdout from other processes

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Matthias Vogelgesang schrieb:
> Hello,
> as I found out, it is possible to get the output of other programs
> using os.popen() and read from it. However this method is blocking for
> server processes and programs that don't stop immediately. Has anyone
> an idea how to get the output of such programs?

Use either the module select to dispatch in case of arriving input on 
one of several filedescriptors, or a thread to poll the data

Diez