popen and two-way communication

[cmkl]

You may be interested in the new subprocess module:

1) PEP:
   http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/whatsnew/node8.html

2) source code:
   http://www.lysator.liu.se/~astrand/popen5/

3) Windows builds (pre Python-2.4):
   http://effbot.org/downloads/#subprocess

Regards

Carl

Stephen Boulet <stephendotboulet at motorola_._com> wrote in message news:<cl1gmk$rgq$1 at newshost.mot.com>...
> I'd like to use popen for a little script to call gnu privacy guard and 
> display decrypted text to a window.
> 
> Working from the dos prompt I can type in:
> 
>     "gpg -d <filename>"
> 
> But then gpg then comes back at me with something like:
> 
> """
> You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> user: "xxxx <xx at somewhere.net>"
> 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID xxxxxx, created 2004-04-27 (main key ID xxxxxx)
> 
> Enter passphrase:
> """
> 
> After entering the passphrase the decrypted text gets dumped to the console.
> 
> How do I do this with popen?
> 
> Stephen
> 
> (Too bad the pexpect module doesn't work under windows.)