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

In Python 3.7 a new keyword argument capture_output was introduced for subprocess.run. Enabling the short and simple:

import subprocess

p = subprocess.run("echo 'hello world!'", capture_output=True, shell=True, encoding="utf8")
assert p.stdout == 'hello world!\n'

Answer 2

 import os   
 list = os.popen('pwd').read()

In this case you will only have one element in the list.

Answer 3

import subprocess
output = str(subprocess.Popen("ntpq -p",shell = True,stdout = subprocess.PIPE, 
stderr = subprocess.STDOUT).communicate()[0])

This is one line solution