subprocess: reading from stdout hangs process termination, waiting for ENTER keyboard signal

[giohappy]

On 14 Apr, 18:52, MRAB <goo... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> giohappywrote:
> > Hello everyone.
> > I'm trying to use subprocess module to launch a Windows console
> > application. The application prints some results to standard output
> > and then waits for the user to press any key to terminte. I can't
> > control this behaviour, as the application is not mine...
> > I'm stuck at the very first lines of my code. I'm trying to force
> > process termination (even with proc.terminate()), and it works only if
> > I don't read from stdout. If I do proc.stdout.read() the process
> > hangs, and I have to manually press the keyboard to interrupt it.
> > Probably it's due a low-level handle that is kept on the process
> > stdout, waiting for the keypress event...
>
> > How can I solve it?
> > Giovanni
>
> > ------- Code excerpt-------
>
> > proc = subprocess.Popen('the_app.exe',
> >                        shell=True,
> >                        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
> >                        )
> > #stdout_value = proc.communicate()[0]
> > stdout_value = proc.stdout.read()
> > PROCESS_TERMINATE = 1
> > handle = win32api.OpenProcess(PROCESS_TERMINATE, False, proc.pid)
> > win32api.TerminateProcess(handle, -1)
> > win32api.CloseHandle(handle)
> > print stdout_value
>
> Try this:
>
> proc = subprocess.Popen('the_app.exe',
>                         shell=True,
>                         stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
>                         stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
>                         )
> stdout_value = proc.communicate("\n")[0]

MRAB, I've tried that too but no result... I still have to press a
keybord key to terminate (the classical "Press any key to continue")