stdout in subprocess

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:24:29 -0400
Not To Miss <not.to.miss at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a question on subprocess.Popen, as shown comparably below. When I ran
> 1.py, it prints "0". I don't understand how the file is empty. Isn't it
> flushed when the file object "out" is closed? On the other hand, running
> 2.py prints correct value.
> 
> ####### 1.py ##########
> from subprocess import *
> out = open('foo.t', 'w')
> a = Popen('ls -l', shell = True, stdout = out)

If you drop the "a = " part it will work.  If you need the object then
simply delete it (del a) when you are done with it.

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