Assign output of os.system to a variable and prevent it from being displayed on the screen [duplicate]

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From “Equivalent of Bash Backticks in Python“, which I asked a long time ago, what you may want to use is popen:

os.popen('cat /etc/services').read()

From the docs for Python 3.6,

This is implemented using subprocess.Popen; see that class’s
documentation for more powerful ways to manage and communicate with
subprocesses.

Here’s the corresponding code for subprocess:

import subprocess

proc = subprocess.Popen(["cat", "/etc/services"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
(out, err) = proc.communicate()
print "program output:", out

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