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I want to call up an editor in a python script to solicit input from the user, much like crontab e or git commit does. Here's a snippet from what I have running so far. (In the future, I might use $EDITOR instead of vim so that folks can customize to their liking.) tmp_file = '/tmp/up.'+''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits) for x in range(6)) edit_call = [ "vim",tmp_file] edit = subprocess.Popen(edit_call,stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True ) My problem is that by using Popen, it seems to keep my i/o with the python script from going into the running copy of vim, and I can't find a way to just pass the i/o through to vim. I get the following error. Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal What's the best way to call a CLI program from python, hand control over to it, and then pass it back once you're finished with it?
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