command substitution

[Joonas Paalasmaa]

Raphael Bauduin wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I was looking for a solution like in bash, which let you put the standard
> output of a command in a variable(in bash, you can do it like OUT=`ls` or
> OUT=$(ls) ).
> 
> If you have another way to take the standard output of a command and put it
> in a variable, it would be helpfull too.

out = popen("ls", "r").read()

And if you want a list of files.
out = popen("ls", "r").readlines()