[Tutor] commands versus subprocess, I'm confused

[Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)]

2008/12/26 Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net>

> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)
> <emadnawfal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > suppose I have an external program that prints "testing the subprocess
> > module"
> > I know I can run it through the commands module like this:
> >
> >>>> a = commands.getoutput("python3.0 hello.py")
> >>>> a
> > 'testing the subprocess module'
>
>
> > I cannot figure out how to do the same thing in the subprocess module.
> Can
> > somebody please explain how to get the same behaviour from, say,
> > subprocess.call
>
> Sometthing like this, I think:
>
> proc = subprocess.Popen('python3.0 hello.py',
>                       shell=True,
>                       stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
>                       )
> stdout_value = proc.communicate()[0]
>
> (Courtesy of http://blog.doughellmann.com/2007/07/pymotw-subprocess.html)
>
> Kent
>
Thank you Kent.
It works, but isn't the commands module much simpler?  I don't know why it's
no more available in Python3.0


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