On May 26, 2:12 pm, lone_eagle <icym...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > On Linux, I do something like this > > $ program_to_execute < input_file > ... get some output ... > > I have the content of the input_file as a string inside a python > program and would like to pass this string to the external program > from inside the python program and get back the programs output in a > string/file. Can someone tell me how to achieve this. I have been > through the documentation for Popen, but this one beats me. > > Cheers, > Chaitanya
from subprocess import getstatusoutput cmd = 'echo ' str = 'Hello World!' status, output = getstatusoutput(cmd + repr(str)) Obviously, this is 3.x. I believe that in 2.x it was in the commands module. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
