Beginner asks question about Python on Linux

[Garrett G. Hodgson]

stephen.allison at cenes.co.uk wrote:

> I'm writing some scripts to do some general administation tasks, and
> need to get the output of a shell command into Python easily. 
try this:

from commands import getstatusoutput

stat, output = getstatusoutput( 'ps aux|grep someProcess' )

output will have stdout and stderr from the command,
and stat will have process status

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