#!/usr/bin/python
"""
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test running other programs that spawn other programs
the only catches here: sys.executable may not be a Python
when PyEdit is frozen, and some spawners may need to unset
the subprocprocy's PYTHONHOME+PYTHONPATH for the Mac app;
the proxy also expects stream text to be utf8 Unicode; 
 
to sidestep all such contraints, set your tectConfig.py's
Python exe path to a locally-installed Python, or use the
source-code version of PyEdit instead of a frozen app.exe;
=============================================================
"""

from __future__ import print_function
import os, subprocess, sys

proc = os.path.abspath('spawnee.py')         # abs for system.popen
os.environ['PYTHONIOENCODING'] = 'utf8'

print('cwd:', os.getcwd())
print('exe:', sys.executable)
print('run:', proc)

print('\nSYSTEM')
os.system(proc)                              # need abspath on mac

print('\nPOPEN')
print(os.popen(proc).read())                 # need abspath on mac


print('SUBPROCESS')  
if sys.executable.lower().endswith(('python', 'python.exe', 'python3')):
    # being run by a standalone python 
    cmdseq = [sys.executable, '-u', proc]    # -u for py unbuffered (more or less)
else:
    # being run by frozen subprocproxy
    cmdseq = [proc]
print('cmd:', cmdseq)

# 1.5: shell should be True on Windows so that it uses filename associations,
# but False on Linux so that it doesn't just start a "python" interactive shell 
doshell = sys.platform.startswith('win') 

# spawn mergeall
subproc = subprocess.Popen(
              cmdseq,                     # a string cmd may fail on Unix
              shell=doshell,              # see note above, platform specific
              universal_newlines=False,   # binary mode, manual decode/eoln
              stdout=subprocess.PIPE,     # capture sub's stdout here
              stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)   # route sub's stderr to its stdout

for line in subproc.stdout:        # read stdout+stderr lines: may block this thread
    print(type(line))
    print('\t=>' + repr(line), line.decode('utf8').rstrip())