Access stdout from external program.

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

Paul Lemelle wrote:
> JM,
>
> Thanks for the response. 
>
> I am trying to capture the stdout of a program from another program. 
> Example, I want to launch the below program from a second python 
> script then capture the first's program stdout to a file or variable.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Thanks again,
> Paul
>

use the subprocess module.

import subprocess
proc = subprocess.Popen(['echo', 'Hello World'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, 
stderr=subprocess.PIPE )
out, err = proc.communicate()
print out
 >> Hello World


more details here

http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html



JM