popen3 on win32 python:2.1.2

[Thomas Guettler]

Hi!

popen3() hangs on W2K:

(stdin, stdout, stderr)=popen3('wvWare -x wvware.xml foo.doc')
text=stdout.read()

--> read() never ends.

It works if wvware produces few output, but with larger files it hangs 
(0% CPU usage).

wvware is a binary from gnuwin32.sourceforge.net

I use the python version which comes with zope: 2.1.2
Platform: Windows 2000 SP2

Is this a know problem? Are there workarounds?

  thomas