shell command output

[William Park]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:06:58PM -0700, Sorin Gherman wrote:
> The only solution I can think of is to use a temp file:
> 
> os.system("diff f1 f2 > tmp")
> tmpfile = open("tmp")
> tmpcontent = tmpfile.readlines()
> for line in tmpcontent:
>    print line
> 
> Is there any solution to avoid the temp file?

popen() in 'os' module.

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