readline() when there is no '/n'

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:37:16AM -0800, Peter Abel wrote:
> John Smith <someone at microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<4P_%9.77$1q2.11539 at newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
> > I am running a process using popen2 and capturing the process output with 
> > readline().  The program prompts for a file name "Enter filename:", and the 
> > line doesn't end with a '/n' so the readline() method hangs up.  Any 
> > suggestions?
> > 
> > John Smith
> 
> try:
> lines=os.popen('proggy').read().split('\n')

Presumably if .readline() is blocking waiting for a \n or EOF, then .read()
will also block...

-Andrew.