Dealing with errors in interactive subprocess running python interpreter that freeze the process

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/2/2018 3:52 PM, cseberino at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> subprocess is not meant for interaction through the pipes.  That is why,
>> I have been told, IDLE uses a socket for interaction.  Multiprocess is
>> apparently better suited for interaction without resorting to a socket.
> 
> So use normal socket on localhost for this?  Don't you still need subprocess
> to launch the interpreter in a separate process?

Yes.  And you need to replace sys.stdxxx with file-like objects that 
redirect streams from and to the socket.  And it is not 100% reliable, 
just 99.99??% reliableC

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Terry Jan Reedy