I get different behavior with os.system and subprocess (no surprise there I guess), but I was hoping for some clarification, namely why.
If I type this directly into the command window: java -Xms128M -Xmx512M -jar gmapcreator.jar -dfile=censettings.xml > mapoutput.txt mapoutput.txt stores the output: Command line mode: input file=censettings.xml 1358 files will be created in C:\Documents and Settings\Nate\Desktop \freqanalysis\tilefiles\CENSUS1-tiles 1358 tiles created out of 1358 in 16 seconds If I execute said command with subprocess, the output is not written to mapoutput.txt - the output just appears in the command window. If I execute said command with os.system, the output is written to mapoutput.txt like I expected. In reality all I want to do is access the first two lines of the above output before the process finishes, something which I haven't been able to manage with subprocess so far. I saw that somehow I might be able to use os.read(), but this is my first attempt at working with pipes/processes, so I'm a little overwhelmed. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
