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Learning to Communicate with subprocess

Learning to Communicate with subprocess

How to communicate with the subprocess in Python

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There are several ways to communicate with the process you have invoked. We’re just going to focus on how to use the subprocess module’s communicate method. Let’s take a look:

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import subprocess
args = ["du"]
process = subprocess.Popen(args,
                           stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
data = process.communicate()
print(data)

In this code example, we create an args variable to hold our ...