Traping output from os.system

[Mark Hammond]

You want "popen".  For non-windows platforms, "os.popen" is where you can
find it.  For Win32 systems, you need the win32 extensions, and
"win32pipe.popen".
Mark.
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<f98ba at efd.lth.se> wrote in message news:8jn34q$kpn$1 at news.lth.se...
> Hi,
>
> I'm executing a command with os.system and are
> trying to capture the output into a python
> variable. The only I can find to do it in
> at the moment is to redirrect the output
> to a file and the read it. That feels wrong,
> isn't there another simple way??
>
> Thanks,
> Bjorn