On May 26, 9:16 pm, Jeff McNeil <j...@jmcneil.net> wrote: > 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 > > Sounds like subprocess is what you want. Here's a quick ad-hoc > example. You can find more information on the module > athttp://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html. > > [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> > import subprocess > >>> sub = subprocess.Popen('/bin/gzip', stdin=subprocess.PIPE, > >>> stdout=subprocess.PIPE) > >>> g = sub.communicate('Please, sir, gzip me?') > >>> import gzip > >>> import StringIO > >>> gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO.StringIO(g[0])).read() > > 'Please, sir, gzip me?' > > > > Thanks, > > Jeff > mcjeff.blogspot.com
Thanks guys!! Problem solved!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
