Re: [Jython-users] How do I process a shell command and grab stdout for text processing?

[Ganesan R <rga...@my...>]

>>>>> "jim" == jim boone <jim...@ba...> writes:

> I need to execute commands on AIX, parse the output, and package the results
> as a Java Bean.  Since I am brand new to Python, I anxiously imported os and
> tried to execute os.popen('command') and grab the output stream.  However,
> popen has not yet been implemented in jython!  Given that big let down, does
> anyone know how in the world can I execute a shell command and process the
> resulting output stream from jython?  Thanks in advance for your help!

This was a big let down for me too. I saw a module called jnios but that
doesn't seem to be maintained any more. I searched google for the reason and
figured out that the reason for this is because Java does not support
pipes. Wouldn't it be possible to emulate popen with
Process.getRunTime().exec()? I guess there's a good reason why that's not
done yet; I'd like to know the reason :-).

Ganesan