python指定终端输出,任何方式使用python将终端输出分配给变量？

I need to grab the duration of a video file via python as part of a larger script. I know I can use ffmpeg to grab the duration, but I need to be able to save that output as a variable back in python. I thought this would work, but it's giving me a value of 0:

cmd = 'ffmpeg -i %s 2>&1 | grep "Duration" | cut -d \' \' -f 4 | sed s/,//' % ("Video.mov")

duration = os.system(cmd)

print duration

Am I doing the output redirect wrong? Or is there simply no way to pipe the terminal output back into python?

解决方案

os.system returns a return value indicating the success or failure of the command. It does not return the output from stdout or stderr. To grab the output from stdout (or stderr), use subprocess.Popen.

import subprocess

proc=subprocess.Popen('echo "to stdout"', shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, )

output=proc.communicate()[0]

print output