get text from rogramms runn by subprocess.Popen immediatetly

[Jeremiah Dodds]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Rüdiger Ranft <_rdi_ at web.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I need to call some programms and catch their stdout and stderr streams.
> While the Popen class from subprocess handles the call, I get the
> results of the programm not until the programm finishes. Since the
> output of the programm is used to generate a progress indicator, I need
> a way to acces the values written to stdout/stderr as fast as possible.
>
> Beneath is a test which shows what I did
>
> TIA
> Rudi
>
> ----8<-------8<-------8<-- iodummy.cpp -8<-------8<---
> #include <iostream>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>        for( int i = 0; i < 10; i++ )
>        {
>                std::cerr << i << std::endl;
>                sleep(2);
>        }
> }
>
> from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
> from time import sleep
>
> p = Popen('./iodummy',stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
> sleep(3)
> # now I expect '0\n1\n' in stderr, but read() blocks until
> # the end of iodummy.
> print p.stderr.read()
> p.wait()
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Depending on what exactly you're doing (like if you need to send info back
to the program you're spawning), the socket module might be of use. I use it
to communicate between Perl and Python for some stuff I have to do at work,
and it works out rather well.

Specifically, I've found sockets and JSON to work really nicely for
inter-language program communication.
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