[Tutor] Getting the results of a file or command?

Jmllr891@cs.com Jmllr891@cs.com
Tue Nov 12 10:32:18 2002 

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How do you get the results from the execution of a file or system command? 
For example, if I asked Windows (err...technically speaking, DOS) to ping 
Python.org:

       os.system("ping python.org")

That would bring up a DOS box with all the results of the ping command, is it 
possible to somehow capture those results and store them in a string or a 
list?

Thanks,
Joshua Miller

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Thanks,<BR>
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