Python subprocess readlines()?

ls = subprocess.Popen(['ls','-l'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
out = ls.stdout.readlines()

or, if you want to read line-by-line (maybe the other process is more intensive than ls):

for ln in ls.stdout:
    # whatever

With subprocess.Popen, use communicate to read and write data:

out, err = subprocess.Popen(['ls','-l'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()

Then you can always split the string from the processes' stdout with splitlines().

out = out.splitlines()

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