On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:30 AM, J <dreadpiratej...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm wondering now... the way it works is that the program is run from > a user terminal/console. however, on the other side (after the reboot > is done) it runs via an autostart script after the user is logged in, > and thus runs outside of the terminal. So I wonder if THAT could be > the root cause of this headache... maybe there's something about the > program being run outside of a user shell and generating those > characters that causes the hang.
It may be a difference in the default encoding of STDIN/STDOUT. When you're running in a terminal, they're probably being set to UTF-8, so Python's reading and writing will be in Unicode; possibly it's set to ASCII import sys print(sys.stdin.encoding) There are many potential differences between TTY access and whatever happens on startup. How is your script being invoked? Is it through Upstart? I know you can arrange where stdio go in Upstart scripts. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
