Dieter Maurer wrote: ..... > > You just found out that this is not the case.
thanks I suppose I was being a moron. > > The warning attached to "communicate"s docstring might have > you averted: "Note: the data read is buffered in memory... > do not use for large size". > > If subprocess would do what you expect, it would need to > buffer the output (to make room in the pipes again). > But, for large data, this could have dramatic consequences. > > Thus, you should use "select" on the pipes to find out > when to read data. > Unfortunately select isn't an option for windows (I think that's only for sockets). I guess I need to read repeatedly from the stdout etc to get the output. Clearly the poll call can't return a status until we've finished reading. > > Dieter -- Robin Becker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
