Executing a C program from Python

[Brent Bloxam]

vishakha vaibhav wrote:
> Hi,
> I am very new to python. I have my cgi script written in Python. My 
> CGI script should call a C program and collect the value returned by 
> this program and pass it to the browser.
>  
> Can anyone help me out in this. How can I execute the c program and 
> collect the return value.
>  
> I tried,
> import os
> a=os.system("my-app")//my-app is the C program executable
> print a
>  
> But the variable *a* prints 0 everytime. It should return a non-zero 
> value as per my C program.  Is there any method to do what I need.
>  
> Regards,
> vish
>
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Executing from os.system returns the return code from the application. 
Take a look at the subprocess module 
(http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#module-subprocess), as 
recommended by the os docs when you need to deal with capturing output 
from stdout.
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