Python subprocess interaction, why does my process work with Popen.communicate, but not Popen.stdout.read()?

Question

I am trying to communicate with a command-line chat bot with Python using the subprocess module. (http://howie.sourceforge.net/ using the compiled win32 binary,

Answer 1

If you want to interact with the program after sending the EOF, rather than using Popen.stdin.close(), you can manually send the command-line End Of File character, which has the same effect but leaves stdin open.

In Python this character's escape sequence is '\x1a'.