Python: How to read stdout of subprocess in a nonblocking way

Question

I am trying to make a simple python script that starts a subprocess and monitors its standard output. Here is a snippet from the code:

process = subprocess.P         


        

Answer 1

You could try this:

import subprocess
import os

""" Continuously print command output """
""" Will only work if there are newline characters in the output. """

def run_cmd(command):    
    popen = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    return iter(popen.stdout.readline, b"")

for line in run_cmd([path_to_exe, os.path.join(temp_dir,temp_file)]):
    print(line), # the comma keeps python from adding an empty line