[Tutor] Apparent incosistency with Python interperter in IDLE

[Lie Ryan]

Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> So the problem is that the stdout of the "ls" command is appearing in
> some location that you cannot see.
> As for ways to remedy this - I don't know.  The idea here, though, is
> that even though the regular Python version has the side-effect that it
> outputs it in the console, that's not necessarily what you want it to
> do.  The reason is that you have no way to access that data.

You have to explicitly redirect the stdout from subprocess

subprocess.Popen(['ls'], stdout=...)

What you're seeing is a side effect of the nature of the interactive
console and IDLE. The defined behavior of python is when it is being run
from a script.