On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:27 PM, gerry.butler <[email protected]>wrote:
> How do I capture output to a string? For example, the output of
> os.system('whoami').
>
> I guess I need to redirect stdout, but I'm a total beginner, and I
> haven't been able to find out from the tutorials how to do this.
>
>
You don't; os.system is only usable to send commands off that need no input
and which you don't care for the output. Check out the subprocess module.
You can do like:
popen = subprocess.Popen("whoami", stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
Then "out, err = popen.communicate()"
The 'out' should contain the output from the command.
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