os.system questions

Thomas Krüger newsgroups at nospam.nowire.org
Sat Mar 31 08:44:01 EDT 2007


Eric Price schrieb:
> up = os.system("uptime")
> How do I assign the output of "uptime" to the variable "up"?

| >>> print os.system.__doc__
| system(command) -> exit_status
|
| Execute the command (a string) in a subshell.

os.system returns the exitcode of the given command. To get the output
try os.popen to os.popen4 or the commands lib.

Thomas



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