Return Text from popen

[Casey Bralla]

I know this problem has a very simple answer, but I've checked the web and I
don't understand the answers that I've found.

How do I return text from a standard Linux command?

For example: I want to read the stdout results of a typical linux command
(such as "df") into a Python variable.

I've tried these techniques:

result = os.system("df")
It dumps the stdout to a screen and puts the result code into "result"

result = popen2("df")
It gives me a tuple of the stdin & stdout pipes, which I don't know how to
harvest into the actual stdout result.
Can someone give me a brief code example of how to get the actual text
result from the linux command into a Python variable? Thanks!

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Casey Bralla
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[Micah Elliott]

On Oct 15, Casey Bralla wrote:

How do I return text from a standard Linux command?

For example: I want to read the stdout results of a typical linux
command (such as "df") into a Python variable.

from os import popen
p = popen("df")
p <open file 'df', mode 'r' at 0xf6f685e0> df_out = p.read()
p.close()
p <closed file 'df', mode 'r' at 0xf6f685e0> print df_out

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Micah Elliott
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