Interfacing my chess client with GNU chess using python

[Will McGugan]

Varun Hiremath wrote:
> Hello,
>    I have written a chess client using python which is a graphic
>    interface to play chess. It is at present a two player version,
>    players move their peices by clicking two squares on the board as
>    in any other chess clients.
>    Now i want to interface my program with the already available
>    gnuchess program. Basically i want to feed the user input to the
>    gnuchess and get the output and then display in my GUI. I have read
>    about Popen but i couldn't figure out how to do it. Is there any
>    other better ways of doing it. Any help would be appreciated.
>

The subprocess module may help you...

http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/module-subprocess.html


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