David Erickson halcyon1981 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 18:25:02 EST 2008

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On Feb 14, 3:07 pm, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
> David Erickson wrote:
> > I am using the Popen class from subprocess and would like to feed a
> > string in as the stdin parameter, however primarily it only takes a
> > File object.  Does there exist a wrapper for a string to do this?  I
> > know I can just dump the string to a temp file and feed that in but
> > that is pretty hacky.
>
> You don't need a file like object:
>
> popen = subprocess.Popen(..., stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
> popen.stdin.write("yourstring")
>
> Christian

Perfect.  Thanks.

-David

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