> Which results in it printing (i think) the last line written to the > pipe > file. I'm thinking there must be a simpler way to access this > information. > Ideally I'd like to dump the whole lot to a string at periodic > intervals but > am completely stumped as to how to do this as readlines() and many > other > methods require an EOF.
FWIW google found this, which looks very promising: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440554/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list