a popen question. Please help

[Joni Lee]

Hi all,

I write a small script

texts = os.popen('top').readlines()
print texts

It calls the command line "top" and will print out some texts.
But first I have to press the keyboard "q" to quit the subprocess "top", then the texts will be printed, otherwise it just stands by with blank.

Question
is. Do you know how to give "q" into my python script so that "top" is
automatically quit immediately or maybe after 1s and print out the texts.

Thank you



      
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