Kevin Walzer wrote:
>>> import os >>> foo = os.system('whoami') kevin >>> print foo 0 >>>The standard output of the system command 'whoami' is my login name. Yet the value of the 'foo' object is '0,' not 'kevin.' How can I get the value of 'kevin' associated with foo?
Hi Kevin, check out popen. It should let you do what you want.
import os
name=os.popen('whoami').read()
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