How to call an external program in python and retrieve the output and return code?

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Look at the subprocess module: a simple example follows…

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

process = Popen(["ls", "-la", "."], stdout=PIPE)
(output, err) = process.communicate()
exit_code = process.wait()

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