Hi Simon Nice job on finding a solution to unwanted command prompts with popen() and backticks on win32. Guessing this is on the same track, perhaps the standard 'stringio' library could be used to supply IO-esque methods to string input and output from Win32API calls? alex Simon Kröçer wrote: > Hi List, > > i have an IO like object (in this case win32 pipes, connected to a child > process). If i can provide a read and write method is there a way to get > all the other IO methods for free? (like getc, each, each_byte, print, > printf....) > > cheers > > Simon > >