Running external programs, receiving output

[Snigelson]

There currently does not seem to be any way to run an external program and save the output. Or at least I can't find one. Please correct me if there is one :)

os.system only runs the program, prints output to stdout. os.popen is not implemented, and all other solutions I found uses the subprocess module.

My solution for now is to run a script using os.system which writes the output of the program to a file which can then be read from my Python program. Feels like there must be a simpler way.

[pfalcon]

Yep, weird, I thought popen() was implemented, as I lately seemed to have had a need for it. But what I remember is that I found out that Python's os.popen() doesn't allow to specify text or binary mode. So, maybe I got disappointed with that and didn't go to implement it. And on the other hand, subprocess module is somewhat bloated.

But something of that definitely needs to be implemented.

[pfalcon]

os.popen() implemented in d47419b