Thank you for your advise. So, it turns out that fifos are quite useless in Python programming then, which is quite disappointing to me :-(
I am not saying that I _have to_ use fifo, afterall it is a rather odd thingy not in fasion since the last iceage... I am just disappointed by the fact that the old plain Bash seems to excel Python in this special aspect. I am new to Python and much more comfortable in Bash programming. A simple Bash script like this would take the advantage of a fifo, hence reduce the overhead of unneccesarry temporary files creation: #!/bin/bash mkfifo my_fifo echo "this is a string in my fifo!" > my_fifo & cat my_fifo rm my_fifo Isn't it neat? Anyway, I think every scripting language has its pros and cons. Bash is probably more flexible in dealing with fifos and multiway pipes (through the magic menchanism of process substitution). Thank you! On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:13:56 -0400, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
