Re: Capturing output of os.system to a string

Thank you. I'll look at subprocess. I have since found that commands will do it too, eg, (status, txt) = commands.getstatusoutput('whoami') or txt = commands.getoutput('whoami') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Capturing output of os.system to a string

How do I capture output to a string? For example, the output of os.system('whoami'). I guess I need to redirect stdout, but I'm a total beginner, and I haven't been able to find out from the tutorials how to do this. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list