How to write EOF to STDIN popen in python

Question

I have the following command run through popen:

p = subprocess.popen(["/usr/bin/whiptail", "--title", "\"Progress\"", "--gauge", "\"\"", "6", "50", "0"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stding=subprocess.PIPE)

To stop the whiptail command from running I need to send EOF to stdin.

How do I send EOF to stdin in Python ?

or I just call p.terminate()

Tangentially, do you really want `Progress` in quotes -- as if it isn't really progress? — tripleee, Aug 30 '15 at 18:05

thule · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-30T17:23:32.003

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What you need is to close the file used as standard input for your script.

So in your case it's p.stdin.close().

edited Aug 30 '15 at 17:23

answered Aug 30 '15 at 17:00

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How to write EOF to STDIN popen in python

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