trouble with wrapping a c program

[Sanne Korzec]

Hi Mailing,

 

I am using a c program, which first initializes for some seconds and then
waits for user input (keyboard) to type something. When enter is pressed the
c program continues. 

 

I have wrapped this program in a python script, which starts the c program.
To start the c program, there are many options in python e.g.

 

Os.system os.popen or subprocess.popen 

To me there does not seem to be a difference for starting the program. They
all work well.

 

However the problem occurs when I want to input data during this c program. 

 

Using the keyboard and then enter in the c program prompt works, but I wish
to do this from the python script by sending the string from the python
script.

 

I am able to print the string from python with a print command or with a
stdout.write command. But this simply prints it to the prompt, the c program
does nothing with this printed string.

 

Is there a way to pipe, stream, or send this string to the running c
program?

 

All tutorials about piping I have read, seem to have to wait for the process
to finish. Or need the stdin string before starting the program.

Note that the c program is not finished when the input is needed, so I
cannot use subprocess.call or wait.

It is possible to give the user input in advance, but I do not want this,
because this makes everything much slower!

I really would like to do this during/while the c program is running.

 

I have created a thread and a small xmlrpc server for this and this works
fine. However I cannot seem to pass the string.

 

Here is a small fragment of my code:

 

#initialization

cmd = [a list of my program and arguments]

subprocess.Popen(cmd)   #starts the c program

 

 

#somewhere along the way

Send_string(str):

            

#Sys.stdin = str

            #subprocess.stdin = str

 

 

I have spent the entire night trying to get this to work, but I can't seem
to get it right. Any help is much appreciated. Also, if anybody could
explain me where the fuck-up in my brain is, I would be very happy..

 

Sanne              

 

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