Thanks this works (if you add shell=True in Popen).
If I don't want to use shell = True, how can I redirect the stdout to
named_pipe? Popen accepts an open file handle for stdout, which I can't open
for writing because that blocks the process...
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> os.mkfifo("named_pipe", 0777)
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> ls_process = subprocess.Popen("ls -lah > named_pipe")
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> pipe = open("named_pipe", "r")
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> # Read the output of the subprocess from the pipe.
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> When the subprocess terminates (look at the docs for Popen objects),
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> close and delete the fifo.
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