[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I automatically redirect stdout and stderr when using os.popen2 > to start a long running process. If the process prints a lot of stuff > to stdout it will eventually stop because it runs out of buffer space. > Once I start reading the stdout file returned by os.popen2 then the > process resumes. I know that I could just specify > /dev/null when > starting the process but I'd like to know if there is a way to start a > process using os.popen2 or some other way so that all standard out and > standard error goes to /dev/null or some other file. > > Thanks, > Mike >
Use the POpen class <http://docs.python.org/lib/node235.html> from the subprocess module. Bye, Dennis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list