piping with subprocess

[Daniel da Silva]

Try this:

from subprocess import check_output
import sys
check_output("textutil -convert html %s -stdout | pandoc -f html -t
markdown -o %s" % sys.argv[1:3], shell=True)




On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Rick Dooling <rpdooling at gmail.com> wrote:

> I spent half a day trying to convert this bash script (on Mac)
>
> textutil -convert html $1 -stdout | pandoc -f html -t markdown -o $2
>
> into Python using subprocess pipes.
>
> It works if I save the above into a shell script called convert.sh and
> then do
>
> subprocess.check_call(["convert.sh", file, markdown_file])
>
> where file and markdown_file are variables.
>
> But otherwise my piping attempts fail.
>
> Could someone show me how to pipe in subprocess. Yes, I've read the doc,
> especially
>
> http://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#replacing-shell-pipeline
>
> But I'm a feeble hobbyist, not a computer scientist.
>
> Thanks
>
> RD
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