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I want to run the following bash command in Python 3: ls -l I know that I can do the following: from subprocess import call call(['ls', '-l']) How do I save this output to a file, or put it into ...

Everytime I'm executing my Python script, it appears to hang on this line: lines = sys.stdin.readlines() What should I do to fix/avoid this? EDIT Here's what I'm doing with lines: lines = sys....

I need to run a program and gather its output to stdout. This program (socat) needs to run in the background for the duration of the python script. Socat sits in dameon mode once it's run, but first ...

I'm running a process with the use of Popen. I need to wait for the process to terminate. I'm checking that the process have terminated through the returncode. When returncode is different from None ...

I wrote a simple python script for my application and predefined some fast commands like make etc. I've written a function for running system commands (linux): def runCommand(commandLine): print(...

I am running a sub-program using subprocess.popen. When I start my Python program from the command window (cmd.exe), the program writes some info and dates in the window as the program evolves. When ...

I have noticed two different behaviors with two approaches that should have result in the same outcome. The goal - to execute an external program using subprocess module, send some data and read the ...

I'm on linux, and I have one python script that I want to call from another python script. I don't want to import it as a module (for a layer of security, and now for an academic exercise because I ...

I just found this great wget wrapper and I'd like to rewrite it as a python script using the subprocess module. However it turns out to be quite tricky giving me all sorts of errors. download() { ...

I'm using a pretty basic setup with subprocess.Popen() and directing stdout to a variable which I later return to a different part of my python script. Here is my basic Popen code: process = ...

I am using python sys to save my stdout to a text file. sys.stdout=open('OLSYield.txt','w') However I only want a portion of the stdout to go to the text. How do I stop writing to txt file and ...

I am using a python script to automate a process involving batch files. These are batch files that are used for other applications and I am not allowed to edit them. At the end of the batch file, it ...

I have a shell script called "nn.sh" which takes an ip address in a local network and SSH into that ip and then continuously read off some data from that ip and appends the results to a file called "...

I've read many of the questions related to this and learned a lot but I still haven't been able to solve my problem. I'm building a wxPython app that runs a c++ executable and displays the stdout from ...

I am currently using python 2.7 and will need to ping windows and linux. I want to create a function that will return the IP address from a ping within a python script. I currently have this function ...