Question

So I noticed subprocess.call while it waits for the command to finish before proceeding with the python script, I have no way of getting the stdout, except with subprocess.Popen. Are there any alternative function calls that would wait until it finishes? (I also tried Popen.wait)

NOTE: I’m trying to avoid os.system call

result = subprocess.Popen([commands...,
                        self.tmpfile.path()], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
out, err = result.communicate()
print out+"HIHIHI"

my output:

HIHIHI

NOTE: I am trying to run wine with this.

Answer 1

I am using the following construct, although you might want to avoid shell=True. This gives you the output and error message for any command, and the error code as well:

process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True,
                           stdout=subprocess.PIPE, 
                           stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

# wait for the process to terminate
out, err = process.communicate()
errcode = process.returncode