Ubuntu quickly (python/gtk) - how to monitor stdin?

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Published on 2010-06-07T19:27:23Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 19:42 UTC
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I'm starting to work with Ubuntu's "quickly" framework, which is python/gtk based. I want to write a gui wrapper for a textmode C state-machine that uses stdin/stdout.

I'm new to gtk. I can see that the python print command will write to the terminal window, so I assume I could redirect that to my C program's stdin. But how can I get my quickly program to monitor stdin (i.e. watch for the C program's stdout responses)? I suppose I need some sort of polling loop, but I don't know if/where that is supported within the "quickly" framework.

Or is redirection not the way to go - should I be looking at something like gobject.spawn_async?

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