On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:58 +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> > You did not redirect stdin, so it is expected you can still read input
> > from the console.
>
> Okay, so if I definitely wanted no input, what should I pass as the
> stdin parameter to the POpen constructor?
The cross-platform equivalent of /dev/null:
Popen(...,stdin=open(os.devnull,"r")...)
> > And it looks like svn is writting the credentials
> > prompt on stderr.
>
> ...which, as you can see from the code I posted, is piped to STDOUT,
> which is then PIPE'd through to the calling python so that
> communicate()'s return value will contain the output.
>
> As I explained, I can't reproduce this by replacing svn with a simple
> python script that writes to stderr. So, what is svn doing?
Many programs prompt for auth credentials on the controlling tty instead
of standard input/output. I believe SSH also does this, which suggests
that it's considered more secure. No idea why, but I trust the authors
of SSH to know their stuff in this regard.
Cheers,
Ryan
--
Ryan Kelly
http://www.rfk.id.au | This message is digitally signed. Please visit
r...@rfk.id.au | http://www.rfk.id.au/ramblings/gpg/ for details
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
