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In the Perl language, you can fork a child process with the following syntax
perl Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. open CHILD, " | programA | programB | program C";
  2. print CHILD "this is an example input";
(at least, you can do this under linux). This statement starts 3 processes in fact; programA, B and C. Moreover, the stdout of A is piped to the stdin of B and the stdout of B is piped to the stdin of C, forming a pipeline. Since the command starts, with a "|", CHILD is a pipe through which your program can write in the stdin of A.

I'd like to know if a similar construct exists for python, or, suppose I want to achieve the same effect with python, what would be the best way to do it ?
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You can use subprocess with shell on unix.

http://blog.doughellmann.com/2007/07...ubprocess.html
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http://www.python.org/doc/current/li...ubprocess.html
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Thanks, it works very well this way
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  1. import subprocess
  2. child = subprocess.Popen( " progA | progB  |  progC",
  3.   shell = True,
  4.   stdin = subprocess.PIPE,
  5. )
  6. child.stdin.write("example input\n")
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