Comments on Blind Renderer: NEVER Use PIPE with Python popen

Thanks for correcting the source code Steven. I g...

2011-03-21T17:26:23.456-07:00

Thanks for correcting the source code Steven. I guess I really should double check my source code :-)

I'll update the main post to reflect it.

In response to the first Anonymous post, the reaso...

2011-03-21T16:30:50.688-07:00

In response to the first Anonymous post, the reason is because of a small error in Pope's source.

The line out_lines = d.readlines() should be out_lines = temp_file.readlines().

d is the file descriptor number since that's what is returned by temp_file.fileno(). You can't read from a file descriptor number.

I've run into the problem before, and it can b...

2010-07-30T09:46:15.238-07:00

I've run into the problem before, and it can be worked around by placing your call to p.stdout.readlines() and p.stderr.readlines() in a thread before calling p.wait(). The problem is that either call would wait for the file to close while the other one potentially blocks when it's buffer is full.

can you post your code here?

2009-01-07T08:53:00.000-08:00

can you post your code here?

I cannot read the file d, python says it's impossi...

2009-01-07T08:47:00.000-08:00

I cannot read the file d, python says it's impossible to read an int object.