How to send a var to stdin of an external software

[Benjamin Watine]

Marko Rauhamaa a écrit :
> 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
> 

Thank you Marko, it's exactly what I need.

And if somebody need it : to get the stdout in a var (myNewVar), not in 
the shell :

cat = subprocess.Popen('cat', shell = True, stdin = subprocess.PIPE, 
stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
cat.stdin.write(myVar)
cat.stdin.close()
cat.wait()
myNewVar = cat.stdout.read()

Is it correct ?

Ben