programme call with popen

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:24:03 -0700, Jeff Shannon <jeff at ccvcorp.com> pisze:

>>>> myoutput = fout.read()
> 
> Note that this will block until the program has finished running.

I'm not sure about Windows, but it won't block that long on Unix.
Both processes will run in parallel exchanging data. The consumer
will temporarily block when the queue is empty and the producer will
block when the queue's buffer is full.

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