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Is there any way to shell out to a program and return whatever is printed to stdout rather than the exit status?

Nov 30th, 2004 10:27
Chris Burkhardt, Joe Bloggs, unknown unknown, Michael Hudson, Loren Poulsen,

import commands
print commands.__doc__
:-)
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Use os.popen() - RTFM.  However, note that for Python 1.5.2 and before,
os.popen often doesnt work on Windows - you need my win32 extensions 
for
this, where win32pipe.popen() does the right thing.  os.popen should
reliably work on Windows in Python 2.0 and later.