Call readlines() before stdout is discarded

Closes gh-12 (hopefully)

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test_misc.py b/tests/test_misc.py
index 5c7f546..377bb0c 100755
--- a/tests/test_misc.py
+++ b/tests/test_misc.py
@@ -117,14 +117,15 @@ class TestCaseMisc(PexpectTestCase.PexpectTestCase):
         child.sendline ("123")
         time.sleep(0.5)
         child.sendeof()
-        time.sleep(1) # time for child to "complete" ;/
-        assert not child.isalive(), child.isalive()
-        assert child.exitstatus == 0, child.exitstatus
         page = b''.join(child.readlines()).replace(_CAT_EOF, b'')
         assert (page == b'abc\r\nabc\r\n123\r\n123\r\n' or
                 page == b'abc\r\n123\r\nabc\r\n123\r\n'), (
                "readlines() did not work. page=%r" % (page,))
 
+        time.sleep(1) # time for child to "complete" ;/
+        assert not child.isalive(), child.isalive()
+        assert child.exitstatus == 0, child.exitstatus
+
     def test_write (self):
         child = pexpect.spawn('cat')
         child.write('a')