Storing Subprocess Results

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, topazcode <ter at topazcode.com> wrote:

> I am using the subprocess module to run some shell commands on a Linux
> system:
>
> import subprocess
> output = subprocess.call('''ssh server1 "uptime"''', shell=True)
>
> The above assigns the output variable with a return code, i.e. 0 in
> this case.  How can I actually capture the data returned from
> subprocess.call, rather than just the return code?  I'd like to have
> the output variable contain the uptime string in this case.  Any help
> is appreciated.  Thanks.
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