How to get the os.system data into a variable

[Trent Mick]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 05:23:29PM +0000, jicman wrote:
> I know that
> 
> t = os.system('ls -l')

o = os.popen('ls -l')
output = o.read()
o.close()

"output" now contains the output. Also look at os.popen2, os.popen3, etc for
when you want handles on stderr and stdin inaddtion to the usual stdout.

Cheers,
Trent


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