Re: line-by-line output from a subprocess

2005-05-23 Thread Simon Percivall
Jp Calderone wrote: > Or, doing the same thing, but with less code: Hmm ... What have I been smoking? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: line-by-line output from a subprocess

2005-05-23 Thread Jp Calderone
On 23 May 2005 13:22:04 -0700, Simon Percivall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Okay, so the reason what you're trying to do doesn't work is that the >readahead buffer used by the file iterator is 8192 bytes, which clearly >might be too much. It also might be because the output from the >application you

Re: line-by-line output from a subprocess

2005-05-23 Thread Simon Percivall
Okay, so the reason what you're trying to do doesn't work is that the readahead buffer used by the file iterator is 8192 bytes, which clearly might be too much. It also might be because the output from the application you're running is buffered, so you might have to do something about that as well.

line-by-line output from a subprocess

2005-05-23 Thread Chermside, Michael
I am using the subprocess module to invoke a command-line utility and process the output. However, I would like to process the output line-by-line as it is generated rather than running the subprocess to completion and THEN processing the results. So, for instance, I'd like to write code like this