python os.mkfifo() for Windows

Question

Short version (if you can answer the short version it does the job for me, the rest is mainly for the benefit of other people with a similar task):

In python in Wind

Answer 1

Following the two answers above, I accidentally bumped into the answer. os.pipe() does the job. Thank you for your answers.

I'm posting the complete code in case someone else is looking for this:

import subprocess
from threading import Thread
import time
import sys
import logging
import tempfile
import os

import game_playing_module

class Pusher(Thread):
    def __init__(self, source, dest, proc, name):
        Thread.__init__(self)
        self.source = source
        self.dest = dest
        self.name = name
        self.proc = proc

    def run(self):
        while (self.proc.poll()==None) and\
              (not self.source.closed) and (not self.dest.closed):
            line = self.source.readline()
            logging.info('%s: %s' % (self.name, line[:-1]))
            self.dest.write(line)
            self.dest.flush()

def get_reader_writer():
    fd_read, fd_write = os.pipe()
    return os.fdopen(fd_read, 'r'), os.fdopen(fd_write, 'w')

def connect(exe):
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG,\
                        format='%(message)s',\
                        filename=LOG_FILE_NAME,
                        filemode='w')

    program_to_grader_reader, program_to_grader_writer =\
                              get_reader_writer()

    grader_to_program_reader, grader_to_program_writer =\
                              get_reader_writer()

    p1 = subprocess.Popen(exe, shell=False, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)        

    old_stdin = sys.stdin
    old_stdout = sys.stdout

    sys.stdin = program_to_grader_reader
    sys.stdout = grader_to_program_writer

    push1 = Pusher(p1.stdout, program_to_grader_writer, p1, '1')
    push2 = Pusher(grader_to_program_reader, p1.stdin, p1, '2')

    push1.start()
    push2.start()

    game_playing_module.play()

    sys.stdin = old_stdin
    sys.stdout = old_stdout

    fil = file(LOG_FILE, 'r')
    data = fil.read()
    fil.close()
    return data

if __name__=='__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        print 'Usage: connect.py exe'
        print sys.argv
        exit()
    print sys.argv
    print connect(sys.argv[1])