If I run the following function "run" with for example "ls -Rlah /" I get output immediately via the print statement as expected
import subprocess32 as subprocess
def run(command):
process = subprocess.Popen(command,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
try:
while process.poll() == None:
print process.stdout.readline()
finally:
# Handle the scenario if the parent
# process has terminated before this subprocess
if process.poll():
process.kill()
However if I use the python example program below it seems to be stuck on either process.poll() or process.stdout.readline() until the program has finished. I think it is stdout.readline() since if I increase the number of strings to output from 10 to 10000 (in the example program) or add in a sys.stdout.flush() just after every print, the print in the run function does get executed.
How can I make the output from a subprocess more real-timeish?
Note: I have just discovered that the python example program does not perform a sys.stdout.flush() when it outputs, is there a way for the caller of subprocess to enforce this somehow?
Example program which outputs 10 strings every 5 seconds.
#!/bin/env python
import time
if __name__ == "__main__":
i = 0
start = time.time()
while True:
if time.time() - start >= 5:
for _ in range(10):
print "hello world" + str(i)
start = time.time()
i += 1
if i >= 3:
break