Top "Subprocess" questions

How to call an external command?

How do you call an external command (as if I'd typed it at the Unix shell or Windows command prompt) …

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Running shell command and capturing the output

I want to write a function that will execute a shell command and return its output as a string, no …

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Store output of subprocess.Popen call in a string

I'm trying to make a system call in Python and store the output to a string that I can manipulate …

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Retrieving the output of subprocess.call()

How can I get the output of a process run using subprocess.call()? Passing a StringIO.StringIO object to stdout …

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read subprocess stdout line by line

My python script uses subprocess to call a linux utility that is very noisy. I want to store all of …

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How do I pass a string into subprocess.Popen (using the stdin argument)?

If I do the following: import subprocess from cStringIO import StringIO subprocess.Popen(['grep','f'],stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stdin=StringIO(…

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How to terminate a python subprocess launched with shell=True

I'm launching a subprocess with the following command: p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True) However, when I …

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How to use subprocess popen Python

Since os.popen is being replaced by subprocess.popen, I was wondering how would I convert os.popen('swfdump /tmp/…

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Using module 'subprocess' with timeout

Here's the Python code to run an arbitrary command returning its stdout data, or raise an exception on non-zero exit …

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How to get exit code when using Python subprocess communicate method?

How do I retrieve the exit code when using Python's subprocess module and the communicate() method? Relevant code: import subprocess …

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