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75 questions linked to/from read subprocess stdout line by line
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Getting realtime output using subprocess [duplicate]
I am trying to write a wrapper script for a command line program (svnadmin verify) that will display a nice progress indicator for the operation. This requires me to be able to see each line of ...
99 votes
7 answers
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Read streaming input from subprocess.communicate() [duplicate]
I'm using Python's subprocess.communicate() to read stdout from a process that runs for about a minute. How can I print out each line of that process's stdout in a streaming fashion, so that I can ...
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1 answer
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Python Command Line input? [duplicate]
My Python script will run a bunch of shell scripts that output either 200 SOLUTIONS_REVISION or 400 SOLUTIONS_REVISION when run. The 200 in the output indicates success and the 400 indicates failure. ...
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4 answers
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How do I read from the terminal in Python? [duplicate]
I just want to use os.system("dir") and also be able to save the text outputted to a variable. I tried using sys.stdout.read() but running sys.stdout.readable() returns False. Do you know how I can ...
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How can I read output from another program? [duplicate]
How can I receive input from the terminal in Python? I am using Python to interface with another program which generates output from user input. I am using subprocess.Popen() to input to the program, ...
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1 answer
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Should I use Popen's wait or communicate to read stdout in subprocess in Python 3? [duplicate]
I am trying to run a subprocess in Python 3 and constantly read the output. In the documentation for subprocess in Python 3 I see the following: Popen.wait(timeout=None) Wait for child process ...
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1 answer
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Python Popen to read live output (linux) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: read subprocess stdout line by line I wrote a C++ program that generates all bunch of text in the Linux console. I am using a python script to parse the output of this C++. I ...
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How to Run shell script on Flask and grap its output back to web instantly [duplicate]
guys.I want to use Flask that runs a shell script and displays its output in a web page. The thing is when I run the script, i want the page to display the output of every command in that script so ...
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Can TQDM track the output of a subprocess? [duplicate]
As part of a long pipeline (all orchestrated in Python), I'm calling an external program using the subprocess module. This program takes a while to finish, so I'd like to show the user a nice progress ...
0 votes
1 answer
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A program that launches another program and acts as its stdout [duplicate]
I want my program to launch some other program and somehow receive all of it's printing output. The bash/terminall/shell (not sure about my terminology here) does exactly that - you tell it what ...
0 votes
1 answer
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subprossess.poll terminates before execution completes [duplicate]
I am using subprocess.poll to read the status of standard out and error. while subprocess.poll() is None : out = subprocess.stdout.readline() print out Process comes out of loop before ...
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stop Popen when string encountered in terminal output [duplicate]
I'm using terminal bluetooth client to scan for BLE devices. When I encounter a device by name 'Ac2', I would like to stop searching (stop Popen and continue in my code) and read the particular line ...
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How can I flush the output of the print function?
How do I force Python's print function to flush the buffered output to the screen? See also: Disable output buffering if the goal is to change the buffering behaviour generally. This question is ...
695 votes
16 answers
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Disable output buffering
Is output buffering enabled by default in Python's interpreter for sys.stdout? If the answer is positive, what are all the ways to disable it? Suggestions so far: Use the -u command line switch Wrap ...
54 votes
6 answers
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Running interactive command line code from Jupyter notebook
There is an interesting option in Ipython Jupyter Notebook to execute command line statements directly from the notebook. For example: ! mkdir ... ! python file.py Moreover - this code can be run ...