I am using the subprocess module in 2.4. Here's the fragment: bufcaller.py: import sys, subprocess proc = subprocess.Popen('python bufcallee.py', bufsize=0, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) for line in proc.stdout: sys.stdout.write(line)
bufcallee.py: import time print 'START' time.sleep(10) print 'STOP' Although the documentation says that the output should be unbuffered (bufsize=0) the program (bufcaller) pauses for 10 seconds and then prints START immediately followed by 'STOP' rather than pausing 10 seconds in between them. Note that I made bufcallee a Python script for ease of the example but in the real-world problem I am trying to solve it is simply an executable. Any ideas? Jeff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list