Redirect os.system output

[Kent Johnson]

jas wrote:
> Any other ideas? or examples of using subprocess to do what I was
> asking?

Actually I thought I was giving an example of what you were asking:
- on windows
- send a series of commands to a command process
- capture the result to a variable

The example I referenced sends a series of HELP commands to cmd.exe, captures the output of the commands and saves it to a file.

What did I miss?

Kent

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> Kent Johnson wrote:
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>>jas wrote:
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>>>I would like to redirect the output from os.system to a variable, but
>>>am having trouble.  I tried using os.popen(..).read() ...but that
>>>doesn't give me exactly what i want.
>>
>>Here is an example using subprocess:
>>http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/9fa3a3c287e8e2a3?hl=en&
>>
>>Kent
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>>>..this is windows by the way.
>>>
>>>For example:
>>>tmp = os.popen("hostname").read()
>>>
>>>...works as expected.
>>>
>>>however,
>>>
>>>tmp = os.popen("cmd").read()
>>>...i would like to have access to the cmd process...i.e. enter commands
>>>like a normal command line. os.system() allows this, but i dont want
>>>output to the screen..i wanna store it to a variable.  then send
>>>content of variable elsewhere,  receive more input and submit it.
>>>almost emulate the windows command prompt.
>>>
>>>any ideas?
>>>
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