Invoking Unix commands from a Python app

[Sybren Stuvel]

Rob Cowie enlightened us with:
> Ok, I know see that os.spawnl() will suffice. However, how do I
> retrieve the output of the command.

Apparently, os.spawnl() didn't suffice. Check out the popen2 module
and Popen* classes.

Sybren
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