a popen command line question

Hi all, I write a small script status = os.popen('top').readlines() print status It calls the command line "top" and will print out the status. But I have to press the keyboard "q" to quit "top", then the status will be printed, otherwise it just stands by with blank. Question is. Do you know

a popen question. Please help

Hi all, I write a small script texts = os.popen('top').readlines() print texts It calls the command line "top" and will print out some texts. But first I have to press the keyboard "q" to quit the subprocess "top", then the texts will be printed, otherwise it just stands by with blank. Questio

Help newbie with how to call a source command

Hi all,   I'm landing here because I need some help that I couldn't get through it. Question 1. I want to call a source command from python script. It will source some variables enviroment for further commands. I tried the following which did not work os.sys('source '+source_text) call(['source'