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() Redirect stderr to stdout: s = os.popen('/usr/bin/msgfmt --statistics '+x[0]+'.po' 2>&1).read() cg.