On Thursday 2013 August 29 11:34, Tim Johnson wrote: > using Python 2.7.1 on OS X 10.7.5 > > I'm managing a process of drush using an instance of subprocess.Popen > > The process has a '--verbose' option. When that option is passed as > part of the initializer `args' argument, the process will hang. > > It should be no surprise as drush output with the --verbose option > can be _extremely_ verbose, and I can do without it, but I would > like to learn how to handle it. I've googled this topic, but my poor > little brain is yet to sort out all of the content found. > > ## my relevant code follows : > p = subprocess.Popen(args,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,stdout=subprocess.PIPE) > ## wait() is 'forever' if '--verbose' used > exit_status = p.wait() > output = p.stdout.read() > ## done
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