Subprocess Popen confusion

[Dick Holmes]

In article <mailman.2.1589442315.11657.python-list at python.org>, 
__peter__ at web.de says...
> 
> Dick Holmes wrote:
> 
> > https://occovid19.ochealthinfo.com/coronavirus-in-oc 
> 
> > I'm trying to
> > communicate using a continuing dialog between two
> > processes on the same system.
> 
> I think pexpect
> 
> https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html
> 
> does this naturally, but I don't know if Windows support is sufficient for 
> your needs.
> 
> > I've looked at various mechanisms and the
> > class that seems to fit my needs is Popen in the subprocess module, but
> > I can't seem to get more than a single round-trip message through Popen.
> > I first call Popen then poll using the identifier returned from the call
> > and the poll seems to work. I then call the communicate function passing
> > None as the value to send to the companion process stdin. I get the
> > expected result, but I also get "Exception condition detected on fd 0
> > \\n" and "error detected on stdin\\n". Subsequent attempts to
> > read/write/communicate with the subprocess fail because the file (stdxx
> > PIPE) is closed.
> > 
> > I can't tell from the documentation if the communicate function is a
> > one-time operation. 
> 
> Yes, communicate() is one-off, 
> 
> 
>         """Interact with process: Send data to stdin and close it.
>         Read data from stdout and stderr, until end-of-file is
>         reached.  Wait for process to terminate.
>         ...
>         """
> 
> seems pretty clear. What would you improve?

Peter - thanks for the clarification. I'm using the 3.6.5 CHM 
documentation and it doesn't mention the phrase "and close it".
> 
> > I have tried using read but the read call doesn't
> > return (I'm using winpdb-reborn to monitor the operations).
> 
> Try readline(). Deadlocks may happen ;)
>  
> > I'm using Python 3.7, Windows 10, winpdb-reborn 2.0.0, rpdb2 1.5.0. If
> > it makes any difference, I'm trying to communicate with GDB using the MI
> > interpreter.
> >