String comparison fails

Question

output = subprocess.check_output(\"./mount.sh\", shell=True)
print output
if output == \"expected_String\":
      print \"Hurray!\"

(The print comm

Answer 1

I believe the problem is your output contains additional new line character at the end. You can fix it by calling .strip() to remove those:

output = subprocess.check_output("./mount.sh", shell=True)
output = output.strip()

Update: How to Find out If a String Ends with New Line?

Consider the following interactive session:

>>> s = '''hello\n'''
>>> s.endswith('\n')
True