Storing Subprocess Results

[Wojtek Walczak]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 07:16:21 -0700 (PDT), topazcode wrote:
> I am using the subprocess module to run some shell commands on a Linux
> system:
>
> import subprocess
> output = subprocess.call('''ssh server1 "uptime"''', shell=True)
>
> The above assigns the output variable with a return code, i.e. 0 in
> this case.  How can I actually capture the data returned from
> subprocess.call, rather than just the return code?

Use subprocess.Popen instead of call.

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Wojtek Walczak,
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