Extend file type

[abcd]

I have a class which extends 'file' ....

class MyFile(file):
def __init__(self, fname, mode='r'):
file.__init__(self, fname, mode)

def write(self, str):
print "writing a string"
file.write(self, str)

def writelines(self, lines):
print "writing lines"
file.writelines(self, lines)

I use this with subprocess....

f = MyFile('out.txt', 'w')
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=f)

.....and I can see that stuff goes into out.txt.....however, I never see
"writing a string" or "writing lines" from the class MyFile.

Any ideas what methods the stdout (and I guess stderr) of Popen objects
from subprocess call?

Any suggestions on how to find out? I did try adding to MyFile....

def __call__(self, *args):
print "calling:", args
return file.__call__(self, *args)
but I never see that either.

thanks

[Fredrik Lundh]

abcd wrote:

Any ideas what methods the stdout (and I guess stderr) of Popen objects
from subprocess call?

the external process only sees OS-level file handles (the number you get
from the fileno() method on your file objects), not Python objects. no
matter how you override things in your process, you cannot make your OS
pretend that the other process is written in Python...

</F>

[Sybren Stuvel]

abcd enlightened us with:

Any suggestions on how to find out? I did try adding to MyFile....

def __call__(self, *args):
print "calling:", args
return file.__call__(self, *args)

but I never see that either.

I don't know the answer to your problem, but I can explain why this
doesn't work. __call__ is used when an instance if MyFile is called as
if it were a function:

mf = MyFile("blabla")
mf()

Sybren
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