redirect and python

[Fredrik Lundh]

"questions?" wrote:

>I am calling system command in python by os.system()
>
> I do, os.system("wget http://blah blah blah")
>
> then I run the program by ./programname >redirected file
> The things put to screen doesn't redirect to the file I want.

the ">" operator redirects standard output only, but wget prints stuff to the
standard error channel.

> What's the trick in here?

the wget documentation explains how to redirect wget output.  if you don't
have the manual page, you can do

    wget --help

to get a list of options.  see the section "Logging and input files" for the options
you need.

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