os.system output

[Kalle Svensson]

Sez Jonathan Soons:
> I am trying to save the output of
> 
> >>>dirs = os.system('ls')
> 
> into a variable but I do not need any output to
> the screen (altho it doesn't hurt). How do I
> go about this?

Check out os.popen().

>>> dirs = os.popen("ls").read()

Peace,
  Kalle
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