[pygtk] Updating a TextBuffer line by line

[Daniel Roesler]

Howdy again,

I am running into a problem displaying stdout from a subprocess
command. I have a loop that checks to see if the subprocess is still
active, then reads a line in from stdout and sends it to the text
buffer. However, I can't seem to get my text buffer to print except
when the command ends. Obviously, I'm missing some logic behind how
loops work with pygtk.

Here's my code:
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command = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

while command.poll() is None:
      line = command.stdout.readline()
      self.txtbuffer.insert_at_cursor(line)
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Any ideas on how to read stdout line by line with subprocesses?

Avast!
Daniel Roesler
diafygi at gmail.com