Python: How to get stdout after running os.system?
If all you need is the stdout
output, then take a look at subprocess.check_output()
:
import subprocess
batcmd="dir"
result = subprocess.check_output(batcmd, shell=True)
Because you were using os.system()
, you'd have to set shell=True
to get the same behaviour. You do want to heed the security concerns about passing untrusted arguments to your shell.
If you need to capture stderr
as well, simply add stderr=subprocess.STDOUT
to the call:
result = subprocess.check_output([batcmd], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
to redirect the error output to the default output stream.
If you know that the output is text, add text=True
to decode the returned bytes value with the platform default encoding; use encoding="..."
instead if that codec is not correct for the data you receive.
import subprocess
string="echo Hello world"
result=subprocess.getoutput(string)
print("result::: ",result)
These answers didn't work for me. I had to use the following:
import subprocess
p = subprocess.Popen(["pwd"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
out = p.stdout.read()
print out
Or as a function (using shell=True was required for me on Python 2.6.7 and check_output was not added until 2.7, making it unusable here):
def system_call(command):
p = subprocess.Popen([command], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
return p.stdout.read()