[Tutor] Output of os.system("c:\myprog.exe") "piped" to a python object ?

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, nicolas baurin wrote:

> clearly i'm using os.system() to launch an external program ;i have to
> "redirect" what comes into the console (standard output of the
> external program) towards a python object: sys.stdout is not enough
> since it's applying to the python interpretor...

why not use commands.getoutput() ?

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