If it helps, here is a basic test case I wrote for “pty.spawn”. I hope that it exposes the problem on Free BSD, but I have only tested it on Linux.

parent = r'''\
import pty, sys
pty.spawn((sys.executable, "-c", sys.argv[1]))
'''
child = r'''\
import sys
# Read input first of all to minimize output buffering
input = sys.stdin.readline()
print("isatty: {}, {}, {}".format(
    sys.stdin.isatty(), sys.stdout.isatty(), sys.stderr.isatty()))
print("input: " + repr(input))
sys.stdout.write("stdout data\n")
sys.stderr.write("stderr data\n")
'''
args = (sys.executable, "-c", parent, child)
parent = subprocess.Popen(args,
    stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
try:
    parent.stdin.write(b"stdin data\n")
    parent.stdin.flush()
    # Leave input open. When the child closes the slave terminal on
    # Free BSD, “spawn” used to keep waiting for input (BPO 26228).
    output = parent.stdout.read()
finally:
    parent.stdout.close()
    parent.stdin.close()
    parent.wait()
self.assertEqual(0, parent.returncode, repr(output))
self.assertIn(b"isatty: True, True, True", output)
self.assertIn(br"input: 'stdin data\n'", output)
self.assertIn(b"stdout data", output)
self.assertIn(b"stderr data", output)