Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: TheSaint Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: How to catch a line with Popen Followup-To: comp.lang.python Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 23:29:07 +0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: jI1P2VkaS831rNruXHMuAA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:6665 Chris Torek wrote: > In at least some versions of Python 2 I'm with P3k :P. However thank you for your guidelines. Last my attempt was to use a *for* p.wait() , as mentioned earlier That looks good enough. I noted some little delay for the first lines, mostly sure Popen assign some buffer even it is not set. Haven't you try a perpetual ping, how would be the line_at_a_time ? -- goto /dev/null