How to store the result of an executed shell command in a variable in python?

Question

I need to store the result of a shell command that I executed in a variable, but I couldn\'t get it working. I tried like:

import os    

call = os.system(\"         


        

Answer 1

commands.getstatusoutput would work well for this situation. (Deprecated since Python 2.6)

import commands
print(commands.getstatusoutput("cat syscall_list.txt | grep f89e7000 | awk '{print $2}'"))