Python using STDIN in child Process

Question

So I have a program, in the \"main\" process I fire off a new Process object which (what I want) is to read lines from STDIN and append them to a Queue object.

Ess

Answer 1

You could use threading and keep it all on the same process:

from multiprocessing import Queue
from Queue import Empty
from threading import Thread

def sub_proc(q):
    some_str = ""
    while True:
        some_str = raw_input("> ")
        if some_str.lower() == "quit":
            return
        q.put_nowait(some_str)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    q = Queue()
    qproc = Thread(target=sub_proc, args=(q,))
    qproc.start()
    qproc.join()

    while True:
        try:
            print q.get(False)
        except Empty:
            break