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

For a cross-platform solution, I'd recommend building the file-like object on top of a socket on localhost (127.0.0.1) -- that's what IDLE does by default to solve a problem that's quite similar to yours.