Peter A. Schott wrote: > I know there's got to be an easy way to do this - I want a way to catch the > error text that would normally be shown in an interactive session and put that > value into a string I can use later. I've tried just using a catch statement > and trying to convert the output to string, but this doesn't always work. I > really don't have programs complex enough to do a lot of specific catching at > this point - I just want to know: > 1. something failed > 2. here's the error output/traceback > > Anyone know how I can do this or if it's possible? Didn't find anything > doing a > search so I figured I'd hit up the experts. > > Thanks. > > -Pete Schott
I don't have an exact answer for you, but since no one else replied: look at subprocess module, and os.popen4() http://docs.python.org/lib/os-newstreams.html#os-newstreams http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-October/305671.html Hint: mentioning your O/S is pretty essential; for many issues, what version of py and how you installed it also -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
