Chaining programs with pipe

[Steve Holden]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-08-21, avishay <avishorp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to chain two programs with a pipe (the output of
>> one feeding the input of the other). I managed to capture the
>> output and feeding the input of each program independently
>> with popen, but how do I tie them together?
> 
> On Unix, you do the same thing you would in C. Create a pipe
> using os.pipe(), then run one program with stdout connected to
> the "write" end of the pipe and the other program with stdin
> connected to the "read" end of the pipe.
> 
> Or you can take a bit of a shortcut by letting the subprocess
> module create the pipe for you:
> 
> http://docs.python.org/lib/node536.html
> 
>> Is there a solution that works equally on all platforms?
> 
> The doc page for subprocess doesn't say what platforms support
> it.  I've had a lot of problems trying to use the subprocess
> module on windows.  As is typical for Windows, there are all
> sorts of special cases that either don't work at all or don't
> work the way they should. You pays your money and you takes
> your chances.
> 
Grant:

I will shortly have to write some training material on using subprocess 
under Windows, so if you have any pointers to where your accumulated 
knowledge can be gleaned I would be grateful for the time saving.

regards
  Steve
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