Capturing stdout from a console process?

[Ben Hutchings]

Sam Schulenburg <samschul at pacbell.net> writes:

> I am using <os.system("xcopy c:*.* d: /v")> within a python program to
> copy files from one directory to another under windows NT. When the
> program executes, a new console window is created with the results of
> the xcopy command being displayed in the console window. Is their a way
> to capture this output by python so I can log error messages?

Yes, but you might find it easier to use something based on the source
for shutil.copytree (which is commented as being `an example rather
than a tool').

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