"billiejoex" wrote: > Hi all. I'm searching for a portable (working on *nix and win32) function > that executes a system command and encapsulate its > output into a string. > Searching for the web I found this: > > os.popen('command').read() > > It is perfect but when che command return an error the funciotn returns an > empy string. > Does it is possible to return stdout and stderr too?
see the variations popen2, popen3 and popen4: http://docs.python.org/lib/os-newstreams.html or use the subprocess module: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list