Question

I’m currently trying to write a python script that, among many things, calls an executable and stores what that executable sends to stdout in a variable. Here is what I have:

 1 #!/usr/bin/python
  2 import subprocess
  3 
  4 subprocess.call("./pmm", shell=True)

How would I get the output of pmm to be stored in a variable?

Answer 1

p = subprocess.Popen(["./pmm"], shell=False, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
output = p.stdout.read()