Redirect os.system output

[jas]

Kent,
  Yes, your example does work.  So did os.popen...however, the problem
is specific to "cmd.exe".
   Have you tried that yet?

Thanks!

Kent Johnson wrote:
> jas wrote:
> > Ok, I tried this...
> >
> > C:\>python
> > Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
> > on win32
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >
> >>>>import subprocess as sp
> >>>>p = sp.Popen("cmd", stdout=sp.PIPE)
> >>>>
> >>>>result = p.communicate("ipconfig")
> >
> > 'result' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > operable program or batch file.
> >
> >
> >
> > basically I was opening to send the "ipconfig" command to cmd.exe and
> > store the result in the "result" variable.  But you can see there was
> > an error with result.
>
> This works for me:
> import subprocess as sp
> p = sp.Popen("ipconfig", stdout=sp.PIPE)
> result = p.communicate()[0]
> print result
> 
> Kent