simple popen question

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.302.1081010146.20120.python-list at python.org>,
Jim Benson  <jbenson at sextans.lowell.edu> wrote:
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>> Also, Mr. Benson, are you *sure* you want to treat blank lines as
>> end-of-message markers?
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>Perhaps not...but it seems to work. It doesn't stop on
>lines that contain only a '\n\0' for example. Hence
>on the write side i can print out apparently blank lines..
>to make the reading of the output easier....and the 
>readline loop keeps piping them and only stops when the
>executable stops. 
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You're right, I was wrong; I thought I'd spotted
a common error, and didn't make the time to think
carefully.  Your usage *is*, in fact, consistent.
I apologize for the confusion.
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Cameron Laird <claird at phaseit.net>
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