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python-2.7
Kevin Carpenter
Kevin Carpenter

Reputation: 1

Run system command with no output

I'm running a wget in Python via os.system.

Is there anyways to hide the output? I tried 

> /dev/null

and tried running the command with a $ in front of it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 101

Answers (1)

3Doubloons
3Doubloons

Reputation: 2106

Use the subprocess module instead.

Using subprocess.call (which is a helper function for some more advanced subprocess features), you can redirect stdout and stderr to file objects. If you open /dev/null (the os module has os.devnull which is a platform-independant path of the null device that can help), you can hand it to subprocess.call and suppress all output

import os
import subprocess

devnull = open(os.devnull, 'w')
subprocess.call([...], stdout=devnull, stderr=devnull)

Upvotes: 1

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