Wrapping an interactive CLI in python

Question

I am trying to wrap gnugo in a python script.

I\'ve gone over the other questions in SO about wrapping CLI applications here and here and though they\'ve helped so

Answer 1

Your issue is that Popen.communicate closes the file after performing its reads and writes.

You will have to manually call proc.stdin.write(...) to send the process text and proc.stdout.read*() to read text:

while True:
    proc.stdin.write(c)
    r = proc.stdout.readline()