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Samkeith
Samkeith

Reputation: 55

How to parse netsh output using python

I'm getting output as expected using:

import subprocess x = subprocess.call('netsh interface show interface')

as 

Admin State    State          Type             Interface Name
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Enabled        Connected      Dedicated        Ethernet0

But when trying to parse netsh output as below:

x.split() Throws error "AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'split'" I tired several other ways but didn't worked.

I am trying to retrieve(filter) just Interface name from netsh output using python.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1410

Answers (1)

Jean-François Fabre
Jean-François Fabre

Reputation: 140168

subprocess.call just returns the return code, not the output stream of the command.

To do what you want, you could do this instead:

p = subprocess.Popen('netsh interface show interface',stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
[x,err] = p.communicate()

then x contains the output provided by the netsh program.

As a general remark, note that it's better to pass the arguments in a string like this:

['netsh','interface','show','interface']

so you have better control of arguments, and can pass arguments with spaces in it without bothering to quote them, quoting is done by subprocess module.

Upvotes: 1

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