getting text from WinXP console

[Lucas Raab]

Jeff Schwab wrote:
> Lucas Raab wrote:
> 
>> Chris Maloof wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how I can read the ASCII text from a console window
>>> (from another application) in WinXP?  It doesn't sound like a major
>>> operation, but although I can find the window via pywin32, I haven't
>>> been able to do anything with it.  I'd really just like to get the
>>> window text into a string.
>>>
>>> By "console window", I mean the sort of thing that comes up when you
>>> run "command" (although this particular one is for the game NetHack).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>> If you're looking to do this from Python then do "python <appname.py> 
>> > output.txt" only without the quotes. AFAIK, this only works on 
>> Windows. Correct me if it works from Linux or another OS.
> 
> 
> It works on Unix. :)
Alright. Thanks, I wasn't sure.

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