How to send a var to stdin of an external software

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Benjamin Watine <watine at cines.fr>:

> How can I do this ? I would like a function like that :
> 
> 	theFunction ('cat -', stdin=myVar)
>
> Another related question : Is there's a limitation of var size ? I
> would have var up to 10 MB.

import subprocess
myVar = '*' * 10000000
cat = subprocess.Popen('cat',shell = True,stdin = subprocess.PIPE)
cat.stdin.write(myVar)
cat.stdin.close()
cat.wait()


Marko

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