Getting return value of another script (resolved)

[Dylan Reinhardt]

It's a proven fact... nothing helps you find the documentation you're 
looking for than admitting to a list that you can't find it.

Just after I posted this question, I found popen3, which is exactly what I 
was looking for.

Thanks,

Dylan


At 02:45 PM 3/12/2003, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm trying to launch a shell script from Python, but I want to get the 
>actual output of the script, not just the shell's exit status.  Unless I'm 
>missing something, it doesn't appear that os.exec* or os.spawn* return 
>anything but the exit status.
>
>I'm running this with Python 2.1.3 on Gentoo Linux.
>
>Thanks in advance for any tips,
>
>Dylan
>
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