[Tutor] os.popen doesn't give up

[Ben Vinger]

 --- Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote: 
> Solutions:
> 1 - os.popen(r'snmpget -Os -c ' + SNMPcommunity + '
> -v2c -r 3 ' + IP + ' ' 
> + counter, 'r'). Discards (therefore closes) the
> file object.
> 2 - l = os.popen(r'snmpget -Os -c ' + SNMPcommunity
> + ' -v2c -r 3 ' + IP + 
> ' ' + counter, 'r').read() Puts snmpget's output in
> l.
> 3 - l = os.popen(r'snmpget -Os -c ' + SNMPcommunity
> + ' -v2c -r 3 ' + IP + 
> ' ' + counter, 'r')
>       l.close()

Thanks Bob.   1 is no solution, because I need to do
something with the output of net-snmp, so I've opted
for 2.

Robert I originallyly had a brief look at pysnmp, but
couldn't get my head around it within the allocated
time (3 minutes).  But maybe I'll use that in future. 




		
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