On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:04:54AM -0400, Paul VanGundy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to get data from subprocess.Popen. To be specific, I am
> trying to read a ping echo and take the output and assign it to a
> variable like below:
>
> ping = subprocess.Popen("ping -c 5 %s" % (server),
> stdou
subprocess.Popen is a class, and as such it returns an object which can
do a lot of stuff besides just reading the output.
What you want to do here is using it's communicate() method as such:
output, errors = ping.communicate()
Also, there is a quicker way, I think from version 2.7 forward: u
Hi All,
I'm trying to get data from subprocess.Popen. To be specific, I am
trying to read a ping echo and take the output and assign it to a
variable like below:
ping = subprocess.Popen("ping -c 5 %s" % (server),
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
However, when I run the command the output that
