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')
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gerry.butler wrote:
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.
You can't with os.system; use subprocess module instead.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:27 PM, gerry.butler wrote:
> 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.
>
>
You don't; os.
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.
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