How can I do this with python ?

[Philippe Martin]

Xiao Jianfeng wrote:

> Tim N. van der Leeuw wrote:
>> Your question is insufficiently clear for me to answer.
>>
>> Do you want to know how to read from standard-input in a Python
>> program?
>>
>> Do you want to know how to start an external program from Python, and
>> then connect something to that programs standard input?
>>
>> Do you want to know something else?
>>
>> Please specify!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --Tim
>>
>>   
> Thanks.
> 
> For example, I can call vim and do something like this in a shell script,
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> vim a.file<<-EOF
> :some_vim_command
> :some_vim_command
> :w
> :q
> EOF
> 
> I want to know how to call vim and to the same thing with python.
> 
> Regrads,

hi,

os.popen should do that.

Philippe