os.popen and lengthy operations

[Dmitry Teslenko]

Hello!

On 24/09/2007, Tommy Nordgren <tommy.nordgren at comhem.se> wrote:
>        Your problem is that you are not reading the standard output and
> standard error streams in the correct way.
> You need to do the reading of standard out and standard err in
> parallell rather than sequentially.
> The called process can't proceed when it's output buffers are full.
> Pipes is limited by small buffers (for examples 512 bytes
> on Mac OS X)

Thanks to all for your comprehensive explanation!