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

In python 3 you can use

import subprocess as sp
output = sp.getoutput('whoami --version')
print (output)

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