pipe large amount of data to stdin while using subprocess.Popen

Question

I\'m kind of struggling to understand what is the python way of solving this simple problem.

My problem is quite simple. If you use the follwing code it will hang. T

Answer 1

The simplest solution I can think of:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from threading import Thread

s = map(str,xrange(10000)) # a large string
p = Popen(['cat'], stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, bufsize=1)
Thread(target=lambda: any((p.stdin.write(b) for b in s)) or p.stdin.close()).start()
print (p.stdout.read())

Buffered version:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from threading import Thread

s = map(str,xrange(10000)) # a large string
n = 1024 # buffer size
p = Popen(['cat'], stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, bufsize=n)
Thread(target=lambda: any((p.stdin.write(c) for c in (s[i:i+n] for i in xrange(0, len(s), n)))) or p.stdin.close()).start()
print (p.stdout.read())