os.popen output different from native shell output

[Thomas Guettler]

hi,

you get the popen output like this:

user at unixhost> ls | cat


nickname schrieb:
> Hi all,
>        I am a relative newbie to python, I am using os.popen to run an
> ls command. The output that I get using the read() function is
> different in look and feel from when I run the ls command natively
> from the shell (not via python). I display the ouput via python by
> using the print function on the variable that accepts the os.popen
> ().read() function.
...

 Thomas


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