Q: how to "spawn" an external cmd and catch its stdin,stdout,stderr

[Andreas Rozek]

Hello!

This might be a silly question - but I could not find an answer in the
Python FaQ - for that reason it might be worth asking:

is there any possibility to launch an external program (without repla-
cing the current process - i.e., no os.exec* call alone) and catch the
stdin, stderr and stdout IO streams (the latter also renders spawn and
fork together with exec* unusable)?

A platform-independent solution  would be preferrable - however,  it's
more important for me to get it for Windows 98!

Thanks in advance for your effort!

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Andreas Rozek
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