I'm on linux, and I'm using a command called 'espeak' which reads sentences on stdin and writes phonemes on stdout. Whe I run it in a console, the output is the following

bash$ espeak -q -v mb-fr4 -s160
bonjour tout le monde    # <-- I type this input, the rest is phoneme output
b       69
o~      70       0 179 100 190
Z       60
u       76       0 230 100 213
R       60
t       91
u       75       0 213 100 204
l       60
@       67       0 221 100 213
m       60
o~      162      0 200 100 141
d       69
_       291
_       1

Now I'm trying to run the same command from python, like this

>>> from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
>>> from select import select
>>> espeak = Popen("espeak -q -v mb-fr4 -s160", shell=True, stdin = PIPE,  stdout=PIPE)
>>> espeak.stdin.write("bonjour tout le monde\n")
>>> select([], [espeak.stdout], [], 3.0)
([], [], [])

that is to say, there is nothing to read on the subprocesses stdout . I can't obtain my list of phonemes!
What can I do ? Help !

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