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How do I pass a string into subprocess.Popen (using the stdin argument)?

September 27, 2022 by Tarik

Popen.communicate() documentation: Note that if you want to send data to the process’s stdin, you need to create the Popen object with stdin=PIPE. Similarly, to get anything other than None in the result tuple, you need to give stdout=PIPE and/or stderr=PIPE too. Replacing os.popen* pipe = os.popen(cmd, ‘w’, bufsize) # ==> pipe = Popen(cmd, shell=True, … Read more

How do I read from stdin?

August 27, 2022 by Tarik

Use the fileinput module: import fileinput for line in fileinput.input(): pass fileinput will loop through all the lines in the input specified as file names given in command-line arguments, or the standard input if no arguments are provided. Note: line will contain a trailing newline; to remove it use line.rstrip().