How should I use grep from python?

[Matthew Wilson]

On Thu 07 May 2009 09:09:53 AM EDT, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Matthew Wilson wrote:
>> 
>> As of May 2009, what is the recommended way to run an external process
>> like grep and capture STDOUT and the error code?
>
> subprocess. Which becomes pretty clear when reading it's docs:

Yeah, that's what I figured, but I wondered if there was already
something newer and shinier aiming to bump subprocess off its throne.

I'll just stick with subprocess for now.  Thanks for the feedback!