Luke Paireepinart wrote: > So the problem is that the stdout of the "ls" command is appearing in > some location that you cannot see. > As for ways to remedy this - I don't know. The idea here, though, is > that even though the regular Python version has the side-effect that it > outputs it in the console, that's not necessarily what you want it to > do. The reason is that you have no way to access that data.
You have to explicitly redirect the stdout from subprocess subprocess.Popen(['ls'], stdout=...) What you're seeing is a side effect of the nature of the interactive console and IDLE. The defined behavior of python is when it is being run from a script. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
