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Re: Interacting with Subprocesses

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Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> writes:

> On 5/4/2016 2:41 PM, Dick Holmes wrote:
>> I am attempting to write a Python program that will interact with
>> a (non-Python) process. The programs will run under MinGW. The
>> process can use stdin/stdout commands and responses and can work
>> with pipes. The problem I'm having is that I can't find any
>> way in Python to have a continuing dialog with the process. I
>> have tried Popen communicate, but that protocol seems to be
>> limited to a single message/response pair, and the response
>> is not returned to the message originator until the process
>> terminates. Unfortunately I don't have access to the process'
>> source code so I can't change the communication medium.
>>
>> Is there some feature that will allow me to initiate the process
>> and execute multiple message/response pairs between the Python
>> program and the process during a single execution of the process?
>
> I have been told that multiprocessing works better for this.  Not sure
> is true.

OP wants to interact with a *non-Python* process—*multiprocessing*
module won't help here.

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Interacting with Subprocesses Dick Holmes <encore1@cox.net> - 2016-05-04 11:41 -0700
  Re: Interacting with Subprocesses Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 00:04 +0300
  Re: Interacting with Subprocesses Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-05-04 20:33 -0400
  Re: Interacting with Subprocesses Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 04:05 +0300
  Re: Interacting with Subprocesses eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 04:38 -0500

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