emulating `` shell operator in Python?

[Adrian Eyre]

> - But the really tricky case is to catch in a string the output of a
> *shell* command, such as os.system('ls').
> The above strategy doesnt work because the command executes in a
> sub-shell (external to python) with its own stdout and stderr.

import os

f = os.popen("ls", "r")
s = f.read()
f.close()
print s

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