Store output of subprocess.Popen call in a string

Question

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         


        

Answer 1

Use ckeck_output method of subprocess

import subprocess
address = 192.168.x.x
res = subprocess.check_output(['ping', address, '-c', '3'])

Finally parse the string

for line in res.splitlines():

Hope it helps, happy coding