Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

[Kumar Appaiah <akumar@iitm.ac.in>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:05:16AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> So far I've coded everything as process oriented rather than object 
> oriented as that is what I am familiar with, but I'm beginning to believe 
> that using classes is probably the way to go as it would be much easier to 
> abstract concepts out that way.  If someone has an example or two they 
> could share with me on how to do interprocess piping in either oo or 
> process oriented, or both, manner I would appreciate the help.

Read the documentation for os.popen. It opens the command and it's
stdin and stdout as pipes.

The commands module might also be of interest.

Kumar

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