Getting a process's output [solved]

[Gerrit Holl]

Dietrich Epp wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2004, at 2:13 PM, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> >Try commands.getstatusoutput() or the various popen functions.
> 
> Thanks, although getstatusoutput requires arguments to be quoted.  I 
> looked at the source code to getstatusoutput() and popen() to come up 
> with a replacement which doesn't need quoted arguments and doesn't 
> create a shell.  I don't think it portable, and it will undoubtedly do 
> something very nasty if one of the system calls should fail.  I think 
> this would be very cool in the library (the function, not its 
> deficiencies).

You may want to have a look at PEP 324, about a new process module:
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0324.html

yours,
Gerrit.

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