New submission from Robert O'Callahan:
Popen() ought to support redirection to/from more file descriptors than 0, 1,
and 2 when spawning processes. A clear use case is here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6050187/write-to-file-descriptor-3-of-a-python-subprocess-popen-object
Instead of messing around with os.open() and os.close() calls, my proposed API
for Popen would be to accept keyword arguments fdN that would take the same
type of values as the stdin, stdout, stderr arguments. Conflicting fd0 and
stdin arguments would throw an exception.
So the smelly code in the above SO question would be changed to:
cmd='gpg --passphrase-fd {fd} -c'.format(fd=fd)
with open('passphrase.txt','r') as fd3_fh:
with open('filename.txt','r') as stdin_fh:
with open('filename.gpg','w') as stdout_fh:
proc=subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(cmd),
stdin=stdin_fh,
stdout=stdout_fh,
fd3=fd3_fh)
proc.communicate()
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 193646
nosy: ropoctorix
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: subprocess.Popen support for redirection of arbitrary file descriptors
type: enhancement
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