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Old 08-01-2007, 04:36 PM   #1
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python - getting command result

Greetings all,

I'm new to python and I need a way to get the results of a command, not the exit status. As an example take "ls" i'm looking for something like

output = someCommand("ls")

os.system is neat, but this gives me the exit status not the result of the command
 
Old 08-01-2007, 06:22 PM   #2
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output = os.popen('ls').read()
 
  


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