Non-blocking read with popen subprocess

Jonathan Gardner jgardner at jonathangardner.net
Thu Jul 30 22:30:46 EDT 2009


On Jul 30, 5:24 pm, Dhanesh <dhanesh... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> how can I we have a non blocking read ?

See http://docs.python.org/library/popen2.html#flow-control-issues

Note well: In the non-blocking world, you have to use select() or poll
() to get your job done.

You may want to look at "communicate" (http://docs.python.org/library/
subprocess.html#popen-objects) which may be what you need.



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