On Jul 14, 12:34 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Mechaniks wrote: > > from subprocess import call > > call(['ls', '-l']) > > > How do I get the result (not the exit status of the command) of "ls - > > l" into a variable? > > output = subprocess.Popen(["ls", "-l"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read() > > Peter
Thanks Peter. Just curious What difference does the following code makes? What are the advantages of the above method over this one? output = subprocess.Popen(['ls', '-l'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0] Also could someone show an example of using the optional input argument for communicate() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
