improving performance of writing into a pipe

[mikprog at gmail.com]

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> 
> I don't see an exception in your answer. Where did you put it for us?
> 

well I just did print a message:

    PIPEPATH = ["/tmp/mypipe"]

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        try:
            self.process = os.popen( self.PIPEPATH, 'w')
        except:
            print "Error while trying opening the pipe!"
            print "check: ", self.PIPEPATH
            exit()

I see the error messages.

It's quite frustrating as I think I am doing something really stupid in here.

Mik