On Oct 15, Casey Bralla wrote: > How do I return text from a standard Linux command? > > For example: I want to read the stdout results of a typical linux > command (such as "df") into a Python variable.
>>> from os import popen
>>> p = popen("df")
>>> p
<open file 'df', mode 'r' at 0xf6f685e0>
>>> df_out = p.read()
>>> p.close()
>>> p
<closed file 'df', mode 'r' at 0xf6f685e0>
>>> print df_out
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