On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:46:24 -0800 (PST), chad <cdal...@gmail.com>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>> Given the following....
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>>
>> import subprocess as s
>>
>> broadcast = s.Popen("echo test | wall", shell=True,stdout=s.PIPE)
>>
>> out = broadcast.stdout
>> while 1:
>> out
>
> Does nothing... "out" is a name bound to the object identified by
> "broadcast.stdout"...
>
> It does nothing unless it is called as...
>
> out(somedata)
I'm pretty sure you meant:
out.write(somedata)
Cheers,
Chris
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