Thanks Alex, now I think I understand much better the fifo/pipe mechanism
and how Python treats them.
For those who are interested, I would like to restate the problem I was
tring to solve and a working solution (inspired by Alex Martelli's code),
feel free to criticize it:
The problem:
I
Thank you for your advise. So, it turns out that fifos are quite useless
in Python programming then, which is quite disappointing to me :-(
I am not saying that I _have to_ use fifo, afterall it is a rather odd
thingy not in fasion since the last iceage... I am just disappointed by
the fact
Hi,
I just found out that the general open file mechanism doesn't work
for named pipes (fifo). Say I wrote something like this and it
simply hangs python:
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
os.mkfifo('my_fifo')
open('my_fifo', 'r+').write('some strings.')
x = os.popen('cat my_fifo').r
