Starting a child process and getting its stdout?

[cypher543]

Yes, I did try your example. But, after talking on the #python IRC
channel, I realized that it wasn't the process that was blocking, it
was my GUI. I had to fire an event using gobject.io_add_watch()
whenever data was received from the child process. The event then read
from the process and added a line to my gtk.TextView.

Thank you for your suggestions, though.

On Dec 30, 12:12 am, Tom Plunket <t... at fancy.org> wrote:
> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> > Did you *actually* tried what Tom Plunket posted? Two tiny chars make
> > a difference.The sad irony is that before taking off for vacation I was struggling at
> work with the same problem in some sense.  I couldn't figure out why for
> some processes I got all of the output right away and for others it all
> got queued up 'til the process ended.  Working out a simple example for
> this thread showed the light: my calling of my_process.stdout.read() was
> blocking 'til EOF.  Oops.
> 
> -tom!
> 
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