Hiding Console Output

[placid]

Kkaa wrote:
> I'm using the os.system command in a python script on Windows to run a
> batch file like this:
>
> os.system('x.exe')
>
> The third-party program x.exe outputs some text to the console that I
> want to prevent from being displayed.  Is there a way to prevent the
> output of x.exe from python?

using the subprocess module to create a subprocess and piping the
stdout,stdin and stderr so you wont see any ouput from the process
unless you read from the PIPE's.


import subprocess
p = subprocess.Popen("x.exe", shell=True,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)



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