newbie:trying to read in stdoutput of commands under various *nixes
Fernando Perez
fperez528 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 13 18:09:07 EDT 2004
googleboy wrote:
> Hiya.
>
> I am fumbling around here, and it is getting quite late.
>
> I am doing something really simple - trying to write something that
> will get the results of a uname command to decide whether the system
> is Linux or OpenBSD in preparation for running a couple of commands
> that have different syntax on the different systems. I first started
> out doing os.name but quickly realised this wasn't what I was after.
> So I am trying stuff like:
In [1]: import commands
In [2]: commands.getoutput?
Type: function
Base Class: <type 'function'>
String Form: <function getoutput at 0x9ec5fd4>
Namespace: Interactive
File: /usr/lib/python2.2/commands.py
Definition: commands.getoutput(cmd)
Docstring:
Return output (stdout or stderr) of executing cmd in a shell.
Cheers,
f
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