Raising exception on STDIN read

[Michael Goerz]

Gabriel Genellina wrote, on 02/27/2008 03:26 PM:
> En Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:06:36 -0200, Ian Clark <iclark at mail.ewu.edu> 
> escribi�:
> 
>> On 2008-02-27, Michael Goerz <newsgroup898sfie at 8439.e4ward.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to raise an exception any time a subprocess tries to read
>>> from STDIN:
>>>
>>> latexprocess = subprocess.Popen( \
>>>          'pdflatex' + " " \
>>>           + 'test' + " 2>&1", \
>>>          shell=True, \
>>>          cwd=os.getcwd(), \
>>>          env=os.environ, \
>>>          stdin=StdinCatcher() # any ideas here?
>>>      )
>>>
>>> An exception should be raised whenever the pdflatex process
>>> reads from STDIN... and I have no idea how to do it. Any suggestions?
> 
>> How about with a file-like object? I haven't tested this with subprocess
>> so you might want to read the manual on files if it doesn't work[1].
> 
> Won't work for an external process, as pdflatex (and the OS) knows 
> nothing about Python objects. The arguments to subprocess.Popen must be 
> actual files having real OS file descriptors.
> 
> Try with stdin=open("/dev/full") or stdin=open("/dev/null")
using /dev/null works in my specific case (in my posted minimal example 
I still have to press Enter, but in the real program it causes pdflatex 
to fail, like I want it to). However, the solution is limited do Linux, 
as on Windows there's no /dev/null. Is there a platform independent 
solution?


Michael