From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2005-09-15T03:11:24+09:00
Subject: Re: IO like object



On Sep 11, 2005, at 6:46 PM, Alex Fenton wrote:

> Hi Simon
>
> Nice job on finding a solution to unwanted command prompts with  
> popen()
> and backticks on win32.
>
> Guessing this is on the same track, perhaps the standard 'stringio'  
> library
> could be used to supply IO-esque methods to string input and output  
> from
> Win32API calls?
>
> alex
>
> Simon Kr�ger wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>> i have an IO like object (in this case win32 pipes, connected to a  
>> child process). If i can provide a read and write method is there  
>> a way to get all the other IO methods for free? (like getc, each,  
>> each_byte, print, printf....)
>> cheers
>> Simon
>>
>
>

Have you considered creating a subclass from IO and defining the  
necessary methods?