Executing multiple commands using Popen.stdin

Question

I\'d like to execute multiple commands in a standalone application launched from a python script, using pipes. The only way I could reliably pass the commands to the stdin of th

Answer 1

It sounds like your application is treating input from a pipe in a strange way. This means it won't get all of the commands you send until you close the pipe.

So the approach I would suggest is just to do this:

process.stdin.write("command1\n")
process.stdin.write("command2\n")
process.stdin.write("command3\n")
process.stdin.close()

It doesn't sound like your Python program is reading output from the application, so it shouldn't matter if you send the commands all at once like that.