portable fork+exec/spawn

[Ben Finney]

Brendan Miller <catphive at catphive.net> writes:

> Is there an actual portable means of asynchronously spawning a
> process and getting a handle to it, being able to write stdin and
> read stdout, or does everyone just write their own wrapper for fork
> and spawn?

You're looking for the 'subprocess' module in the standard library
<URL:http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html>.

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Ben Finney