On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:07:40 -0400, Kevin Walzer wrote:
>>>> import os
> >>> foo = os.system('whoami')
> kevin
> >>> print foo
> 0
> >>>
> >>>
> The standard output of the system command 'whoami' is my login name. Yet
> the value of the 'foo' object is '0,' not 'kevin.' How can I get the
> value of 'kevin' associated with foo?
That's because os.system captures the return code of the system call,
which is 0 in this case because whoami succeeded. Meanwhile whoami
printed its result to standard output, as normal.
What you want is os.popen('whoami', 'r').read()
Also look at the popen2 module.
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Steven
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