Reading the error stream from os.popen()

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 19-Oct-00 Tov Are Jacobsen wrote:
 >  The msgfmt command below outputs info to the stderr stream,
 >  but the read() method retrieves data from stdin.
 >  
 >  s = os.popen('/usr/bin/msgfmt  --statistics '+x[0]+'.po').read()
 >  
 >  Any ideas? (I would like to make my script to work with an
 >  unmodified version of msgfmt) :-)

You could take a look at the module popen2, and especially
the functions popen2.popen2 and popen2.popen3.

/Mikael

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