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Added common.misc.runcmd
author Joseph Turian <turian@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:09:24 -0400
parents 2291a244a887
children 9e73e6dc9823
files common/misc.py
diffstat 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/common/misc.py	Thu Jun 19 16:27:02 2008 -0400
+++ b/common/misc.py	Tue Jul 01 21:09:24 2008 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+def runcmd(cmd):
+    """
+    Run a command and return its output
+    """
+    import popen2
+    (pin, pout) = popen2.popen2(cmd)
+    return pin.read()
+
 def sign(i, assertions=True):
     """
     + or - 1