I need to make some command line calls to linux and get the return from this, however doing it as below is just returning 0 when it should return a time value, like 00:08:19, I am testing the exact same call in regular command line and it returns the time value 00:08:19 so I am confused as to what I am doing wrong as I thought this was how to do it in python. Any advice is appreciated.
import os
retvalue = os.system("ps -p 2993 -o time --no-headers")
print retvalue
解决方案
What gets returned is the return value of executing this command. What you see in while executing it directly is the output of the command in stdout. That 0 is returned means, there was no error in execution.
Use popen etc for capturing the output .
Some thing along this line:
import subprocess as sub
p = sub.Popen(['your command', 'arg1', 'arg2', ...],stdout=sub.PIPE,stderr=sub.PIPE)
output, errors = p.communicate()
print output
or
import os
p = os.popen('command',"r")
while 1:
line = p.readline()
if not line: break
print line