subprocess.getstatusoutput does not exist in 2.7

Jon Ribbens jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk
Tue May 19 13:37:57 EDT 2015


On 2015-05-19, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> wrote:
> At the moment I want my code to run with 2.7 and 3.4+.
>
> But the command:
>     subprocess.getstatusoutput
> does not exist in 2.7. Is this an oversight or is there a reason for
> it?
>
> I can rewrite the code (back) to work with Popen again, but I found
> the getstatusoutput elegant.

It's in the 'commands' module in Python 2. You could use the
following:

  try:
      from subprocess import getstatusoutput
  except ImportError:
      from commands import getstatusoutput



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