The line only means it will read a maximum of 1024 characters, most of the output I try to catch is much shorter. I think that if the output is longer as 1024, it will read the rest after another call to select.select, but I think I have not yet come across that case and have not tested it.
I set the error pipe to OS_NONBLOCKing earlier in the code, but I can't remember if that has anything to do with the os.read(). Note: I'm using Python 2.3.4/2.3.5, not tested on 2.4.x yet. >>>Jacek Pop*awski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/12/05 2:39 pm >>> > ready = select.select(tocheck, [], [], 0.25) ##continues after 0.25s > for file in ready[0]: > try: > text = os.read(file, 1024) How do you know here, that you should read 1024 characters? What will happen when output is shorter? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
