getting text from WinXP console

[Lucas Raab]

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.

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