very cool Chad.
That worked.
Except I had to add cmd as an argument for get_status_output()[1].
def get_output(cmd, input=None, cwd=None, env=None):
return get_status_output(cmd)[1]
thank you for your help.
D
On May 30, 7:50 am, Chad Dombrova <[email protected]> wrote:
> the built-in commands module will give you what you want:
> http://docs.python.org/library/commands.html#commands.getoutput
>
> however, the commands module has been deprecated in favor of the subprocess
> module. i'm not sure why they can't just rewrite the commands module to use
> the subprocess module, but here are some functions that fill that purpose:
> from subprocess import *
> def get_status_output(cmd, input=None, cwd=None, env=None):
> pipe = Popen(cmd, shell=True, cwd=cwd, env=env, stdout=PIPE,
> stderr=STDOUT)
>
> (output, errout) = pipe.communicate(input=input)
> assert not errout
>
> status = pipe.returncode
>
> return (status, output)
>
> def get_status_output_errors(cmd, input=None, cwd=None, env=None):
> pipe = Popen(cmd, shell=True, cwd=cwd, env=env, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
>
> (output, errout) = pipe.communicate(input=input)
>
> status = pipe.returncode
>
> return (status, output, errout)
>
> def get_output(cmd, input=None, cwd=None, env=None):
> return get_status_output()[1]
>
> -chad
>
> On May 29, 2011, at 12:42 PM, efecto wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi there.
>
> > Does anyone know a good way to catch output in shell(linux
> > environment) to a string in Maya?
>
> > import os
> > cmd = 'myCommand file'
> > os.system(cmd) # this spits out results in shell
> > I want to catch this this results to a string inside maya for some
> > use.
>
> > thank you.
> > D
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