Question

$whois abc.com

I want to use python to hit this command, and then give the result as a String of text. How can I do that?

Answer 1

You can use subprocess, for example:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
output = Popen(["/usr/bin/whois", "abc.com"], stdout = PIPE).communicate()[0]

The stdout = PIPE parameter forces stdout to be written to a temporary pipe instead of the console (if you don’t want that, remove the stdout parameter).