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		robrenaud on May 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plumbum: Pythonic Shell Combinators The commands module is now deprecated by the overly complicated subprocess module, but `content = commands.getoutput(x)` is much better than `os.system(x + ' > foo') content = open('foo', 'r').read()`

icebraining on May 13, 2012 [–]

The subprocess mode is really not that complicated. Your example can be written as:

    content = subprocess.check_output(x, shell=True)

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