John O'Hagan wrote:
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Thanks, sockets are the way to go for this and surprisingly easy to use once
you get your head around them. I tried Rhodri's suggested approach but for now
I used the original terminal for both starting the program and entering new
options (still via raw_input) and a new terminal listening on a socket
connection to display the results.
A secondary question: right now I'm starting the "listening" terminal by
executing a script ('display.py') as a subprocess:
port = 50007
here = os.path.abspath('')
terminal = os.environ['TERM']
subprocess.Popen([terminal, '-e', here + '/display.py', str(port)])
but to me it feels kind of clunky to have a separate script just for this; is
there a nicer way to launch another terminal, say by passing a locally defined
function to it?
Regards,
John
You could pass it the same script you're running, but with a
command-line argument that causes it to execute a different part of the
script. Perhaps the port parameter above is enough, as your main
process won't be getting that argument. I'd recommend something
explicit, however.
DaveA
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