Needs help from a guru

[Erik Max Francis]

"Raaijmakers, Vincent (IndSys, GE Interlogix)" wrote:

> I'm using Python in a Linux environment. In that environment I have to
> use some special shell scripts. These shell scripts generates output
> in the form of data to the console/terminal, for example a "query.sh"
> script returns... a query of a database in plain text.
	...
> To start these scripts, the os.execvp seems a good solution, however
> it returns nothing.
> 
> What is the best command to use? Can someone please help me, it will
> save me a lot of time.

This is what os.popen is for.  The popen2 module contains variants that
let you choose between unified or separate stdout and stderr, etc.

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