popen under nt?

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Thomas,


> I'm looking for a functinality like popen but under nt. It meands
> starting a new programm in a new "process" and read stdout and stderr.
>From the FAQ
http://www.pythonlabs.com/pub/www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#7.13

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The reason that os.popen() doesn't work from within PythonWin is due to a
bug in Microsoft's C Runtime Library (CRT). The CRT assumes you have a
Win32 console attached to the process. 

You should use the win32pipe module's popen() instead which doesn't depend
on having an attached Win32 console. 

Example: 

 import win32pipe
 f = win32pipe.popen('dir /c c:\\')
 print f.readlines()
 f.close()
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