getting text from WinXP console

[Jeff Schwab]

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. :)