I am using Python and it's subprocess library to check output from calls using strace, something in the matter of:
subprocess.check_output(["strace", str(processname)])
However, this only gives me the output after the called subprocess already finished, which is very limiting for my use-case.
I need a kind of "stream" or live-output from the process, so I need to read the output while the process is still running instead of only after it finished.
Is there a convenient way to achieve this using the subprocess library? I'm thinking of a kind of poll every x seconds, but did not find any hints regarding on how to implement this in the documentation.
Many thanks in advance.
Had some problems referencing the selected answer for streaming output from a test runner. The following worked better for me:
import subprocess
from time import sleep
def stream_process(process):
go = process.poll() is None
for line in process.stdout:
print(line)
return go
process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
while stream_process(process):
sleep(0.1)