On 2010-04-16 14:06 PM, Catherine Moroney wrote:
Hello,
I want to call a system command (such as uname) that returns a string,
and then store that output in a string variable in my python program.
What is the recommended/most-concise way of doing this?
I could always create a temporary file, call the "subprocess.Popen"
module with the temporary file as the stdout argument, and then
re-open that temporary file and read in its contents. This seems
to be awfully long way of doing this, and I was wondering about
alternate ways of accomplishing this task.
p = subprocess.Popen(['uname', '-srvi'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
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