On Dec 26, 2008, at 8:57, "Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)" <emadnaw...@g
mail.com> wrote:
2008/12/26 Kent Johnson <ken...@tds.net>
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)
<emadnaw...@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
Subprocess was designed to replace all the os.popen classes since 2.4.
Commands is a wrapper for os.popen.
Aside from that commands AFAIK is unix only. Therefore it is less
portable.
~ro
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