I can run python3 interactively in a subprocess w/ Popen but if I sent it text, that throws an exception, the process freezes instead of just printing the exception like the normal interpreter.. why? how fix? Here is my code below.
(I suspect when there is an exception, there is NO output to stdin so that the problem is the line below that tries to read from stdin never finishes. Maybe I need a different readline that can "survive" when there is no output and won't block?) .... import subprocess interpreter = subprocess.Popen(['python3', '-i'], stdin = subprocess.PIPE, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.PIPE) while True: exp = input(">>> ").encode() + b"\n" interpreter.stdin.write(exp) interpreter.stdin.flush() print(interpreter.stdout.readline().strip()) interpreter.stdin.close() interpreter.terminate() -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list