[Tutor] calling other process?

[Bernard Rankin]

Hello,

I've been reading the Python docs on how to call a 2nd program and getting it's output, and would up here:

http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html

Is:

from subprocess import Popen 
output = Popen(["mycmd", "myarg"], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]

Really the replacement for:

output = `mycmd myarg`


Is there a less verbose, yet still official supported, way to capture STDOUT from a different program?

Thank you,
:)