get output of cmd-line command under MS windows

[Fredrik Lundh]

"calmar" wrote:

> that was good, but on python2.4
>
> subprocess is GREAT! e.g.:
>
>     pipe = subprocess.Popen(tot, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,\
>             stderr=subprocess.PIPE, shell=False)
>     message = pipe.stdout.read()
>     error = pipe.stderr.read()

footnote: subprocess is available for Python 2.2 and later, from

    http://www.lysator.liu.se/~astrand/popen5/

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