Output from subprocess.Popen

Question

I\'ve been writing some python code and in my code I was using \"command\"

The code was working as I intended but then I noticed in the Python docs that command has

Answer 1

The variable output does not contain a string, it is a container for the subprocess.Popen() function. You don't need to print it. The code,

import subprocess
output = subprocess.Popen("ls -al", shell=True)

works perfectly, but without the ugly : being printed.