Executing a shell command

[Michael Hudson]

"Kevin Riggle" <vj$ri^gg#guess#l55e at mt$*guess#&cn1e#t.!@n()et> writes:

> Is there any way to take a command in a string in Python, execute it in the
> shell, and read the output into a variable of some sort, like
> 
> result = execute(cmdline)

>>> import commands
>>> print commands.getoutput.__doc__ 
Return output (stdout or stderr) of executing cmd in a shell.

Cheers,
M.

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