[Tutor] popen

[Andrew Wilkins]

Hi tutors!

I want my program to do the following:

In main.py, in an infinity loop (temporarily) it continually runs an update
command. I want to open up a new python window for input, for an
administrator to punch in commands using input() or raw_input().

input.py looks like this:

while 1:
 x=input('>')
 print x #print to the main process


Now I tried using os.popen:

input_process=os.popen('python input.py')

This works, but the window doesn't show up! It's probably not meant to, but
is there a way around this? Because otherwise I can not input at all...

Is there another function that does this better?

TIA, Andrew