How can I get dos program running info in python?

[Alex Martelli]

"Kick" <store_li at sina.com> wrote in message
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> I want to use python to make a wrapper for my bcc command line complier. I
> wish I can gather information which bcc return and show them in the python
> program.
>
> Could some one give me some advices?


import os

resultfile = os.popen('bcc ' + ' '.join(flags) + ' '.join(arguments))

text_result = resultfile.readlines()    # or .read(), etc, etc

result_code = resultfile.close()

display_results(result_code, text_result)



The result_code may be examined with functions os.WIFEXITED(result_code),
etc, but only on Unix-like platforms, unfortunately -- on, e.g., Windows,
I believe result_code will None on success, or some numetic mystery on
errors, although that isn't clearly documented in the online docs (I think).


Alex