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I have this linux command:

rsync -avz --info=progress2 source:/file /destination

which I have used in Python like this:

proc = subprocess.Popen(['sshpass', '-p', password, 'rsync', '-avz', '--info=progress2', source12, destination], 
                                    stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]

This store the output as well as progress in proc variable like this:

receiving incremental file list
rathi/
rathi/20090209.02s1.1_sequence.txt.gz
    209,398,969  27%   11.95MB/s    0:00:45  

I only want to extract the progress percentage from the above line. I want to check the variable for each 1minute and extracts the updated percentage. For the parsing I think can use re module. How can I achieve my result? Thanks

Answer 1

You can get the progress with re indeed.

progress = re.search('\d*%',str).group()

Where str is your string to search in.

Edit:

You need to make a while loop e.g.

while(progress < 101%):
    get_new_progress
    re.search....