[Python] How to get the output from os.system() into a variable ?

A quick solution using popen :

import os
result=os.popen('command').read()
print result

where command is your command (expl. on windows: dir,ipconfig,...)

If you expect more than a line and want each word in a list:

import os,string
result=string.split(os.popen('dir/w').read())

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