creating a block file for file-like object

[Iain]

On Nov 7, 4:42 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l... at geek-
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message
> <e424a5ea-0a62-4ca1-842b-cb2cc2cea... at n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>, Iain
> wrote:
>
> > Can someone give me some pointers as to how I might create some sort
> > of blocking device file or named pipe ...
>
>     mkfifo /path/to/named/pipe

Thanks.

I did get that far myself with os.mkfifo - my problem is actually
using it. To me it seemed like I wanted to do something like

streamobj = urllib.urlopen("http://whereever.com/file")
fifoobj = open("/path/to/named/pipe","w")
fifoobj.write(streamobj.read())
TroublesomeFunction("/path/to/named/pipe")

But as soon as you get to the second line the code hangs (apparently
because of the blocking behaviour of the named pipe).

Any pointers here would be much appreciated.