Redirecting the output from sys.stdout

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Pieter Claerhout wrote:
> Any examples on how to use the popen of the os module? Never used it before.

import os, string
pipe = os.popen("dir /w", 'r') # Open pipe for reading

lines = []
while 1:
   line = pipe.readline()
   if not line: break # EOF

   lines.append(line)

print string.join(lines, '') # Every line already contains newline, not need it here

Oleg.
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