Hello Matthias, > as I found out, it is possible to get the output of other programs > using os.popen() and read from it. However this method is blocking for > server processes and programs that don't stop immediately. Has anyone > an idea how to get the output of such programs? The current "official" module to use is subprocess (pipe = Popen([client], stdout=PIPE)) However if the client is sending data, reading from the pipe.stdout will block the server. If you *need* to wait, then you can use pipe.wait(), otherwise do as Diez suggested and have a thread read the client output and propagate it to the main loop (maybe using Queue.Queue)
HTH, -- Miki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://pythonwise.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
