Hey Hugo:
I now realize that to properly test this, I should use a command that
returns legitimate data:
I think the following gets me started:
f = os.popen('ls *.py','r').read()
now I have captured the output from 'ls *.py'.
So, if I do this with popen3:
>>> a,b,c = os.popen3('wt *.py','r')
>>> res = a.read()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
>>> err = c.read()
>>> err
'/bin/sh: line 1: wt: command not found\n'
Then I can trap for IOError and hand either a legal response
or an error.
Hope I'm still on the right track.
thanks
tim
* Hugo González Monteverde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060215 20:25]:
> I also noticed that if you want to get the manpage, you will be hurt by
> the interactivity of 'man' (it uses less for paging) One way to get the
> whole manpage as text without paging is to do:
>
> man -P /bin/cat
>
> So you won't have to do strange stuff in stdin to get it to give you the
> whole text.
>
> Hugo
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