Hiding Console Output

[Kkaa]

I'm using the os.system command in a python script on Windows to run a
batch file like this:

os.system('x.exe')

The third-party program x.exe outputs some text to the console that I
want to prevent from being displayed. Is there a way to prevent the
output of x.exe from python?

 

[Larry Bates]

I'm using the os.system command in a python script on Windows to run a
batch file like this:

os.system('x.exe')

The third-party program x.exe outputs some text to the console that I
want to prevent from being displayed. Is there a way to prevent the
output of x.exe from python?

Check out the subprocess module. With it you can control more than
with os.system().

-Larry

 

[kyle.tk]

I'm using the os.system command in a python script on Windows to run a
batch file like this:

os.system('x.exe')

The third-party program x.exe outputs some text to the console that I
want to prevent from being displayed. Is there a way to prevent the
output of x.exe from python?

Use os.popen('x.exe') instead.

-kyle

 

[placid]

I'm using the os.system command in a python script on Windows to run a
batch file like this:

os.system('x.exe')

The third-party program x.exe outputs some text to the console that I
want to prevent from being displayed. Is there a way to prevent the
output of x.exe from python?

using the subprocess module to create a subprocess and piping the
stdout,stdin and stderr so you wont see any ouput from the process
unless you read from the PIPE's.


import subprocess
p = subprocess.Popen("x.exe", shell=True,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)



Cheers

-
http://bulkan.googlepages.com/python/

 

[Kkaa]

This seems like the right thing to do, but it runs the program in the
background, and I need my program to wait until the x.exe has finished.
I tried using this code:

p =
subprocess.Popen("x.exe",shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
sts = os.waitpid(p.pid, 0)

But I get the error: "No child process". Any ideas?

 

[Simon Forman]

This seems like the right thing to do, but it runs the program in the
background, and I need my program to wait until the x.exe has finished.
I tried using this code:

p =
subprocess.Popen("x.exe",shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
sts = os.waitpid(p.pid, 0)

But I get the error: "No child process". Any ideas?

Read the docs.

Here's a link to the docs for the subprocess.Popen object. Note the
second method? http://docs.python.org/lib/node239.html

 

[John Savage]

I'm using the os.system command in a python script on Windows to run a
batch file like this:

os.system('x.exe')

Is .exe really a batch file?

The third-party program x.exe outputs some text to the console that I
want to prevent from being displayed. Is there a way to prevent the
output of x.exe from python?

To consign stdout to nul in MSDOS you can use os.system('x.exe>nul')
so that will probably work for windows, too. This works regardless
of x.exe or x.bat so should do for whatever type of prog you are wanting
it for.