don't understand popen2

[Martin P. Hellwig]

Donn Cave wrote:
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> 
> Anyway, it seems unlikely he would get that INVARG error for this
> reason.  That's an error from the host operating system, not the
> interpreter, and it mostly likely refers to the file descriptor.
> Since it works for me, I guess his problem is basically this:
> 
> |> (python 2.4 + win32 extensions on XPProSP2)
> 
> 	Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com

Thank you for your suggestion.

I shuffled it a bit around and executed it on my BSD box and there 
indeed it works, if I use that exactly program (well not the path var of 
course) on NT it has no error but it still not gives the expected 
results. So I guess that pipes,std-in, std-out & std-err work that 
different on NT then on other POSIX systems.

The lucky thing is that the code where I am exercising for must run on a 
BSD system so my immediately problem is dealt with, but I'm still 
curious how to get this working on NT.

I posted my new code and the results under my sep.

-- 
mph

popen_test.py------------------------------------
#! /usr/local/bin/python
import popen2

std_out, std_in = popen2.popen2("F:\coding\pwSync\popen_test\testia.py")
std_in.writelines("test\n")
std_in.flush()
std_in.close()
x=std_out.readlines()
print(x)
-------------------------------------------------

testia.py----------------------------------------
#! /usr/local/bin/python
someline = raw_input("something:")

if someline == 'test':
     print("yup")
else:
     print("nope")
-------------------------------------------------


results on NT:
F:\coding\pwSync\popen_test>popen_test.py
[]


results on BSD:
%./popen_test.py
['something:yup\n']
%