Linux command-line call not returning what it should from os system

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I need to make some command line calls to linux and get the return from this, however doing it as below is just returning 0 when it should return a time value, like 00:08:19, I am testing the exact same call in regular command line and it returns the time value 00:08:19 so I am confused as to what I am doing wrong as I thought this was how to do it in python.

import os retvalue = os.system("ps -p 2993 -o time --no-headers") print retvalue

Aug 29, 2018 in Python by bug_seeker
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What gets returned is the return value of executing this command. What you see in while executing it directly is the output of the command in stdout. That 0 is returned means, there was no error in execution.

Use popen etc for capturing the output .
Some thing along this line:

import subprocess as sub
p = sub.Popen(['your command', 'arg1', 'arg2',...],stdout=sub.PIPE,stderr=sub.PIPE)
output, errors = p.communicate() print output

or

import os
p = os.popen('command',"r")
while 1:
    line = p.readline()
    if not line:
    break
    print line

answered Aug 29, 2018 by Priyaj
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