I’ve been trying to make a script that automatically installs Pi-hole (website available here), but I just remembered that Pi-hole asks for some screen inputs (e.g., to ask what upstream DNS provider you want to use). This can be navigated using your arrow keys, but I’m just wondering, is there a way currently where you can check if a subprocess is waiting for a screen input like that?

I’ve been trying to make a script that automatically installs Pi-hole (website available here), but I just remembered that Pi-hole asks for some screen inputs (e.g., to ask what upstream DNS provider you want to use). This can be navigated using your arrow keys, but I’m just wondering, is there a way currently where you can check if a subprocess is waiting for a screen input like that?

I would like to output some data in a separated console window on windows.

I’m trying to run a function in an update loop

I have a command line program that reads a file and generate 3 other files.
Lets say the executable name is abc.exe it reads abc.in and generates abc1.out, abc2.out, abc3.out

We work on a python package. However silly it might sound, we want a node.js app to be a part of the package (it would be one of the options in CLI). To distribute it smoothly we want the package to automatically install node.js.
I tried nodejs-bin package but it seems to be old and not working anymore.
The thinking was using Python subprocess library to do this.

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Single threaded:

On Ubuntu 22, using Python 3.10, I need to set up a VPN connection and analyze the response from the VPN server. I do this as follows:

I have a simple script to mimic a program writing to stdout and stderr streams interleaved.

Note: This seems like a solved problem, but I couldn’t find a solution.