[Tutor] captering output of a cmd run using os.system.

[Michael P. Reilly]

alan.gauld@bt.com wrote
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> > You can use the os.popen3 command instead. 
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> You might need to use the version of popwen in 
> the winall package if you are on NT/W9x 
> - it seems to work better...

WinXX os.popen also has a bug in GUI environments and will fail anyways
(which is why it doesn't work in the IDEs).

One win32all solution is:
>>> import win32pipe
>>> file = win32pipe.popen("echo Hello from Python", "r")
>>> file.read()
'Hello from Python\012'
>>>
There are other modules to help spawn programs this way.

If you wish to do a lot of WinXX Python programming, you might want to
get Hammond&Robinson's _Python Programming on Win32_.

  -Arcege

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