system exec ?

[Alex Martelli]

"alphaZeta" <NOSPAM.hnguyen421 at NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I didn't find any documentation (lib and tut) about how to execute a
program
> in a python script.

os.system('theprogram') just executes it.  What you desire is different:

> Does anybody know ?
>
> For example : I would like to store in a variable the result of a call to
> the system.
> alike : >>> a = sys.exe("ls -l")

a = os.popen("ls -l").read()

may be what you want (but you may also prefer to call .readlines()
instead for example, getting the result as a list of strings, one
per line, rather than as one big string).


Alex