How to use subprocess

[Thomas Bellman]

Nicolas Fleury <nid_oizo at yahoo.com_remove_the_> writes:

> Hi,
> 	I want to use the subprocess module (or any standard Python module) to 
> run a process:
> - which stdout and stderr can each be redirected to any file-like object 
> (no fileno function).
> - can be cancelled with a threading.Event.

> My problem is that the subprocess.Popen constructor doesn't seem to 
> support file-like objects (only file objects with fileno()).

> If I use subprocess.PIPE, I have the problem that the read functions of 
> of the subprocess objects stdout and stderr are blocking (and I want to 
> redirect them to different file-like objects, so I definitely need 
> non-blocking access).  How am I supposed to do it?

You might take a look at my asyncproc module, available at

    http://www.lysator.liu.se/~bellman/download/asyncproc.py

Specifically the Process class.  It doesn't do exactly what you
want, but maybe you can use it as inspiration for doing it yourself.

It requires the subprocess module, but I have successfully used
it under Python 2.3.2 with subprocess installed locally.


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