From: Caio Chassot <lists@...2studio.com>
Date: 2006-09-20T13:52:25+09:00
Subject: Re: piping input when shelling out


On 2006-09-19, at 23:17 , ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> you're making it pretty hard on yourself:

I guess I was :)

> my session and open4 lib both abstract this largely, including a  
> good deal of
> error handling.  there is also the built-in open3 module.  check  
> out the docs.

Thanks.

Having a separate stdout and stderr is great, in fact, just the next  
thing I was going to ask about. So both open3 and open4 seem like  
great candidates.

Could you take some time to sell open4 over open3?

The main advantage I see is the greater abstraction, i.e. the spawn  
method.