In message <rnospamon-e7e08b.18181804062...@news.gha.chartermi.net>, Ron Garret wrote:
> Python 2.6.2 on OS X 10.5.7: Same result, Python 2.6.1-3 on Debian Unstable. My $LANG is en_NZ.UTF-8. > ... I always thought one of the fundamental > invariants of unix processes was that there's no way for a process to > know what's on the other end of its stdout. Well, there have long been functions like isatty(3). That's probably what's involved here. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list