On Oct 8, 11:24 am, "Samuel A. Falvo II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 7, 6:23 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is your shell script doing something else, apart from invoking the java > > process? > > Obviously, yes. The script is some 150 lines long. But the hang-up > occurs because of the forked Java process, not the other lines. > > > If not, you could just invoke java directly from Python. Also, > > you set stdin=PIPE - is your java process expecting some input? you're not > > writing anything to stdin. > > It does not expect input from stdin. However, this does not affect > any OTHER scripts or commands I run. > > Let's remember to look at the objective facts: for shell scripts that > launch child processes of their own, Python hangs. For all other > types of commands, it works 100% as expected. > > > Anyway, it's better to use the communicate method instead (it uses select > > to read from both stdout and stderr): > > That doesn't help me. > > > See > > http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen.commu... > > I have.
You should be nicer to Gabriel. He is a guru. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
