pipe tutorial

[Larry Bates]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Tue, 22 May 2007 11:11:45 -0300, Larry Bates
> <larry.bates at websafe.com> escribió:
> 
>> Gigs_ wrote:
>>> does anyone know some good tutorial on pipes in python?
>>
>> Pipes is specific only to Windows (you can use sockets
>> on Windows/Linux/mac).  The only specific treatment of
>> pipes I've seen is in Python Programming for Win32 by
>> Mark Hammond/Andy Robinson.
> 
> There are pipes in Unix too, named and anonymous, and I think they
> predate its introduction in Windows (first on NT4 I believe). "Pipes"
> used to redirect standard input/output are certainly much older.
> To the OP: what do you want to do, exactly?
> 
> --Gabriel Genellina
> 
You are right.  I didn't think about piping of commands since that
wouldn't really be a Python question.  I thought user wanted pipes
for interprocess communication that is prevalent in Windows.  I
guess the OP can chime in and we can answer the question better.

-Larry