Output from subprocess.Popen

Question

I\'ve been writing some python code and in my code I was using \"command\"

The code was working as I intended but then I noticed in the Python docs that command has

Answer 1

See the subprocess module documentation for more information.

Here is how to get stdout and stderr from a program using the subprocess module:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT

cmd = 'echo Hello World'
p = Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, close_fds=True)
output = p.stdout.read()
print output

results:

b'Hello\r\n'

you can run commands with PowerShell and see results:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT
cmd = 'powershell.exe ls'
p = Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT, close_fds=True)
output = p.stdout.read()

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