Perl-like backtick in Python

[Erik Max Francis]

Tom Verbeure wrote:

> In Perl i can do something like this:
> 
> $str = `cat myfile.in`;
> 
> Basically the string that is surrounded by the backticks is executed
> by a shell and the stdout is returned as a string.
> 
> In the python library, there is spawn*, exec* and system, but the
> return the exit status of the command, not the output. Any suggestions
> about who to do this?

You want os.popen, or one of the related beasts in the popen2 module.

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