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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: Tim Meehan <btmeehan@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-user <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: open-pipe* seems to buffer all of my writes when I don't want it.
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:16:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210115091620.GA9842@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACgrOx+vGPgux2jeDsRdYbFraJPzLdG=t4QKLUSeX2umgo2jPw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:56:42PM -0600, Tim Meehan wrote:
> I was trying to use Matplotlib to plot some data, through a call to
> "open-pipe*" ... I'm trying to slowly rewrite some of my tools in Scheme.
> 
> When I run the program from the shell with "python -i plotter.py" I can
> send it updates ... but when I run it through Guile, it seems to store up
> all of my updates [...]

Warning: untested. But perhaps you need to put a `force-output'...

[...]
> (put-string stuff program)
> (force-output stuff)
> 
> (let loop ([command (readline prompt)])
>     (unless (string-prefix? "quit" command)
>         (display "updating\n")
>         (put-string stuff "update_data()\n")

... around here?

>         (loop (readline prompt))))
> 
> (close-pipe stuff)

(I'm still surprised that setting the buffer to 'none didn't help).

Cheers
 - t

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-15  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-15  4:56 open-pipe* seems to buffer all of my writes when I don't want it Tim Meehan
2021-01-15  9:16 ` tomas [this message]
2021-01-16  2:39   ` Tim Meehan

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