New to Python; what about #include, extern and function prototypes

[David M. Cook]

In article <RGF2c.105804$jf4.6360171 at news000.worldonline.dk>, Bo Jacobsen
wrote:

> By the way, is there an elegant way to read shell program output
> into a variable as in bash: var=$(command1 | command2)

I usually use the commands module:

  import commands

  status, output = commands.getstatusoutput("command1 | command2")
  
status would be $? in bashese.
  
Dave Cook