Repost: Read a running process output

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 02/05/10 14:39, Ashok Prabhu wrote:
> On Feb 5, 6:33 pm, Ashok Prabhu <ashokprab... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 5, 5:58 pm, Alain Ketterlin <al... at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Ashok Prabhu <ashokprab... at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> p1=Popen('/usr/sunvts/bin/64/vtsk -d',stdout=PIPE,shell=True)
>>
>>>>> Use Popen(['/usr/...','-d'],stdout=PIPE), i.e., no shell.
>>
>>>>> -- Alain.
>>>> Thanks for the response. However it throws an error. Please find
>>>> below.
>>
>>>>>>> from subprocess import *
>>>>>>> p1=Popen('/usr/sunvts/bin/64/vtsk -d',stdout=PIPE)
>>
>>> You forgot to change the monolithic command into a list of words. Since
>>> you don't use the shell anymore you have to give Popen a pre-parsed
>>> command line.
>>
>>> -- Alain.
>>
>> Here is the error again
>>
>>>>> p1=Popen('/usr/sunvts/bin/64/vtsk','-d',stdout=PIPE)
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line 494, in __init__
>>     raise TypeError("bufsize must be an integer")
>> TypeError: bufsize must be an integer
>>
>> ~Ashok.
> 
> Oops i missed the braces. But still no output.
> 
> 
>>>> p1=Popen(['/usr/sunvts/bin/64/vtsk','-d'],stdout=PIPE)
>>>> while 1:
> ...  a=p1.stdout.readline()
> ...  print a
> ...

I've tried

#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess
p1= subprocess.Popen(['/bin/ls','/LOCAL/'],stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
for line in p1.stdout :
  print ">>>",line

which works just fine.

Are you sure, your /usr/sunvts/bin/64/vtsk writes a newline character (readline is waiting for that)?

Helmut.

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany