Return Text from popen
I know this problem has a very simple answer, but I've checked the web and I don't understand the answers that I've found. 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. I've tried these techniques: result = os.system(df) It dumps the stdout to a screen and puts the result code into result result = popen2(df) It gives me a tuple of the stdin stdout pipes, which I don't know how to harvest into the actual stdout result. Can someone give me a brief code example of how to get the actual text result from the linux command into a Python variable? Thanks! -- Casey Bralla Chief Nerd in Residence The NerdWorld Organisation http://www.NerdWorld.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Return Text from popen
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 -- Micah Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
