How to Communicate with a Chess engine in Python?

Question

on win 7 i can communicate with a chess engine via commandline. Small Example Session with Stockfish on Win 7:

C:\\run\\Stockfish>stockfish-x64.exe
Stockfi         


        

Answer 1

You've got a deadlock: the subprocess is waiting for input, while your program is waiting for it to output more lines in

for line in engine.stdout:
    print(line.strip())

This loop only stops when the subprocess closes its stdout.