I see that, although I don't totall grasp the code. However, I am looking to basically emulate a command prompt. i.e. everything u see in the windows command prompt should be displayed back in python.
How can I do it without files? Kent Johnson wrote: > jas wrote: > > Any other ideas? or examples of using subprocess to do what I was > > asking? > > Actually I thought I was giving an example of what you were asking: > - on windows > - send a series of commands to a command process > - capture the result to a variable > > The example I referenced sends a series of HELP commands to cmd.exe, captures > the output of the commands and saves it to a file. > > What did I miss? > > Kent > > > > > > > Kent Johnson wrote: > > > >>jas wrote: > >> > >>>I would like to redirect the output from os.system to a variable, but > >>>am having trouble. I tried using os.popen(..).read() ...but that > >>>doesn't give me exactly what i want. > >> > >>Here is an example using subprocess: > >>http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/9fa3a3c287e8e2a3?hl=en&; > >> > >>Kent > >> > >> > >>>..this is windows by the way. > >>> > >>>For example: > >>>tmp = os.popen("hostname").read() > >>> > >>>...works as expected. > >>> > >>>however, > >>> > >>>tmp = os.popen("cmd").read() > >>>...i would like to have access to the cmd process...i.e. enter commands > >>>like a normal command line. os.system() allows this, but i dont want > >>>output to the screen..i wanna store it to a variable. then send > >>>content of variable elsewhere, receive more input and submit it. > >>>almost emulate the windows command prompt. > >>> > >>>any ideas? > >>> > > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
