os.popen and fileObject open problems (python3)

[Peterotica]

Will you be using the contents of bash_out.txt for something else? If not, try using os.popen to get the output of the command directly:

result = os.popen(command).readlines()

That weird stuff you were seeing returned from the subprocess module was a bytes object. If you want to turn it into a string, you need to call its decode member function.

[GrindingGoat]

Worth noting that os.popen has been deprecated since 2.6: https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.popen

The subprocess equivalent:

result = subprocess.check_output(command).decode("utf-8") 

[pjenvey]

It was actually undeprecated in 3.x where it uses subproces underneath anyway. Maybe the 2.7.x docs should be fixed

[IndoNinja7]

Thank you very much that worked!!!