Capturing stdout from a class method

[Thomas Jollans]

Falcolas wrote:
> I have a rather strange situation, and I'm not sure my brief
> experience of Python will let me handle it properly.
> 
> The situation is this: I have a Java class "X" which I need to call in
> a Jython script. The  output of "X" is sent to stdout using the java
> call System.out. I need to capture this output, and preform tests on
> it in the Jython script.
> 
> My first pass at a design involves two jython scripts. One (we'll call
> it "Y") whose sole function is to instantiate and call "X", and die.
> The second script will call "Y" using a method which captures stdout
> to a pipe. The second script would then read the stdout from the pipe
> and act accordingly.
> 
> Can anybody suggest a better way to handle this? The Java class, "X",
> can not be modified for this test.

How about subprocess.Popen ? I'm thinking of something like this:

import subprocess

X_proc = subprocess.Popen(['java', 'Xstarter'])
for line in Xproc.stdout:
   # do funky stuff
   pass



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