sending data to another process's input stream?

[Paul Prescod]

"Joseph J. Strout" wrote:
> 
> >I think that the key was that Andrew presumed that the C++ program's only
> >communication interface was the stdin. Thus he had Python CGIs socketing
> >to Python long-lived-server piping to stdin.
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Right.  This is the bit I don't understand.  How do I do this?

You can use os.popen2 or something like it. But the trick is that the app
that calls os.popen can't close or else it loses the file handle. So you
need a long running Python app.

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