Eric Promislow wrote: > Here's a small Python program I use to grab the output from rake: > > ===== > > from subprocess import Popen, PIPE > > p = Popen(args='c:\\ruby\\bin\\ruby.exe c:\\ruby\\bin\\rake -T', > cwd=u'c:\\Users\\ericp\\testing\\file07', > shell=True, > stdin=None, > stderr=PIPE, > stdout=PIPE, > creationflags=0x8000000 > ); > p.wait() > data = p.stdout.read() > print data
Your usage of wait() is dangerous. The code can block indefinitely when the stdout or stderr buffer is full. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
