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Re: Trying to chain processes together on a pipeline

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On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011.07.01 02:26 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
>> I can't reproduce your setup, but I'd try using communicate() instead of
>> wait() and close().
> I don't really know what communicate() does.

"Read data from stdout and stderr, until end-of-file is reached. Wait
for process to terminate."
It then returns the read data as two strings. It's pretty straightforward.

> The docs don't give much
> info or any examples (that explain communicate() anyway), and don't say
> when communicate() is useful.

They are slightly roundabout in that respect. The warnings for .wait()
and .stdout/err explain communicate()'s utility:
"Warning: This will deadlock when using stdout=PIPE and/or stderr=PIPE
and the child process generates enough output to a pipe such that it
blocks waiting for the OS pipe buffer to accept more data. ***Use
communicate() to avoid that.***" [emphasis added]

Cheers,
Chris
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Re: Trying to chain processes together on a pipeline Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-06-30 20:40 -0500
  Re: Trying to chain processes together on a pipeline Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-07-01 09:26 +0200
    Re: Trying to chain processes together on a pipeline Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-07-01 03:02 -0500
    Re: Trying to chain processes together on a pipeline Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-07-01 01:24 -0700

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