Redirect DOS command output

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <87ura9$ib0$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <daryl_stultz at my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>Hey, I'm using os.system() to execute a DOS command (on an NT machine).
>I would like to capture (and parse) the output from the command. I'm
>familiar with sys.stout but I'm not sure how to do this.

You either need to redirect the output to a file (e.g.

   os.system("foo > bar")

) or capture the output directly:

   os.popen("foo")

Note that os.popen() is known to have some problems on Win9x (for more
info see the Python FAQ).
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