subprocess.Popen() output to logging.StreamHandler()

[sven _]

Version: Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Mar  7 2008, 04:10:12)

My goal is to have stdout and stderr written to a logging handler.
This code does not work:

# START
import logging, subprocess
ch = logging.StreamHandler()
ch.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
subprocess.call(['ls', '-la'], 0, None, None, ch, ch)
# END

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "log.py", line 5, in <module>
   subprocess.call(['ls', '-la'], 0, None, None, ch, ch)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 443, in call
   return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 586, in __init__
   errread, errwrite) = self._get_handles(stdin, stdout, stderr)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 941, in _get_handles
   c2pwrite = stdout.fileno()
AttributeError: StreamHandler instance has no attribute 'fileno'


This is because subprocess.Popen() expects file descriptors to write
to, and logging.StreamHandler() does not supply it. The StreamHandler
could supply its own stdout file descriptor, but then Popen() would
write directly to that file, bypassing all the logging fluff.

A possible solution would be to make a named pipe (os.mkfifo()), have
Popen() write to that, and then have some horrendous hack run select()
or similar on the fifo to read from it and finally pass it to
StreamHandler.

Are there better solutions?

sven