Capturing stdout from a console process?

[Daniel Klein]

Have a look at the popen2 module which provides classes for managing the
stdin, stdout and stderr of sub-processes. Mr. Lundh's excellent ebook "The
Standard Python Library" has good examples of its use.

Daniel Klein

"Sam Schulenburg" <samschul at pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:91b8q3$aqu$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> 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?
>
> Sam Schulenburg
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