portable fork+exec/spawn

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Brendan Miller <catphive at catphive.net> wrote:
>  On Fri, 02 May 2008 13:25:55 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> 
> > URL:http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html
> 
>  Awesome. This is exactly what I was hoping existed.

subprocess works well for spawn process, send input, receive output,
read exit code type jobs.

For jobs which require interactivity ie send input, receive output,
send input, receive output, ... it doesn't work well.  There isn't a
good cross platform solution for this yet.  pyexpect works well under
unix and is hopefully being ported to windows soon.

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