shell command output

[Alan Miller]

Erik Max Francis (max at alcyone.com) wrote:
>Sorin Gherman wrote:
>
>> Is there any solution to avoid the temp file?
>
>Yep, use popen:

But be careful - popen behaves differently depending on whether you're 
on Win9x/ME or WinNT/2K.  In particular, on Win9x-based boxes it has to 
use Win9xpopen.exe, which has (or had) a bug in the handling of quoted 
strings with embedded spaces.

For more details, go to groups.google.com and search for "python popen 
ajm" to get the articles I posted about it back in April.  The message 
with a subject ending in "(update)" gives more details about the 
problem.

ajm