portable fork+exec/spawn

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> >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.
> 
>  There is a good cross-platform solution, in fact.  It's Twisted's
>  spawnProcess API, which works on POSIX and Windows, supports supports
>  sending and receiving, and doesn't have deadlock issues since it's
>  event-driven.

It took me a while but I found the documentation on this eventually

  http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorProcess.html

Looks interesting - I'll have to try it next time I'm reaching for
pexpect

Thanks

Nick
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