subprocess

Store output of subprocess.Popen call in a string

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I’m trying to make a system call in Python and store the output to a string that I can manipulate in the Python program. #!/usr/bin/python import subprocess p2 = subprocess.Popen("ntpq -p") I’ve tried a few things including some of the suggestions here: Retrieving the output of subprocess.call() but without any luck. Answers: Thank you for … Read more

Retrieving the output of subprocess.call()

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How can I get the output of a process run using subprocess.call()? Passing a StringIO.StringIO object to stdout gives this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 444, in call return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 588, in __init__ errread, errwrite) = self._get_handles(stdin, stdout, stderr) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", … Read more

live output from subprocess command

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I’m using a python script as a driver for a hydrodynamics code. When it comes time to run the simulation, I use subprocess.Popen to run the code, collect the output from stdout and stderr into a subprocess.PIPE — then I can print (and save to a log-file) the output information, and check for any errors. The problem is, I have no idea how the code is progressing. If I run it directly from the command line, it gives me output about what iteration its at, what time, what the next time-step is, etc.