Filling up commands.getstatusoutput's buffer

[Jeff Epler]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:10:49PM -0700, travislspencer at gmail.com wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Has anyone ever had commands.getstatusoutput's buffer fill up when
> executing a verbose command? [...]

How much output are you talking about?  I tried outputs as large as
about 260 megabytes without any problem. (RedHat 9, Python 2.2)

>>> len(commands.getoutput("dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=512000 2>/dev/null"))
262144000
>>> 512 * 512000
262144000

Jeff
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