I'm getting errors when reading from/writing to pipes that are fairly large in size. To bypass this, I wanted to redirect output to a file in the subprocess.Popen function, but couldn't get it to work (even after setting Shell=True). I tried adding ">","temp.sql" after the password field but mysqldump gave me an error.
the code: p1 = subprocess.Popen(["mysqldump","--all-databases","--user=user","-- password=password"], shell=True) p2 = subprocess.Popen(["gzip","-9"], stdin=p1.stdout) output = p2.communicate()[0] file=open('test.sql.gz','w') file.write(str(output)) file.close() the output: gzip: compressed data not written to a terminal. Use -f to force compression. For help, type: gzip -h mysqldump: Got errno 32 on write I'm using python rather than a shell script for this because I need to upload the resulting file to a server as soon as it's done. thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list