[mod_python] mod_python and os.system and os.popen

I got it work by adding the following: 

import subprocess
...
...

p = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
for line in p.stdout:
  req.write(line)
req.write(p.wait())

...

I still don't know why the other way didn't work, but I am fine now.

On Fri Feb 22 18:48 , argriffi  sent:

>What I meant was that there are at least a couple of problems with this 
>line.
>First, you probably want "output" instead of "ouput".
>Second, you probably want "read()" instead of "read".
>If you've already tried those versions then I'm just being dense :)
>
>
>Martha Zimet wrote:
>> My bad.. I also tried that in my various versions
>> of the code. Same result. 
>>
>> On Fri Feb 22 18:39 , argriffi  sent:
>>
>>   
>>> ouput = os.popen(command).read
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Martha Zimet wrote:
>>>     
>>>> I am attempting to call os.system and os.popen from within
>>>> a mod_python script and nothing happens. That is, the commands
>>>> perform no action. I am attempting to use os.system and os.popen
>>>> to execute wget, and I wonder if there any tricks that I am not
>>>> aware of. I have been googling and didn't find anything useful. 
>>>> Any assistance would be appreciated. 
>>>>
>>>> Here is some code where 'update' is called from an HTML form. 
>>>> I have tried both os.system and os.popen with the same result.
>>>> I read about Popen, rather than os.popen, but that does not 
>>>> seem to exist in my implementation.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> /martha
>>>>
>>>> from mod_python import apache
>>>> import cgi
>>>> import pg
>>>> from cgi import escape
>>>> from urllib import unquote
>>>> import sys
>>>> import os
>>>>
>>>> def update(req):
>>>>
>>>>     # The getfirst() method returns the value of the first field
>>>>     # with the name passed as the method argument
>>>>     host = req.form.getfirst('host', '')
>>>>     user = req.form.getfirst('user', '')
>>>>     password = req.form.getfirst('password', '')    
>>>>
>>>>     # Escape the user input to avoid script injection attacks
>>>>     host = cgi.escape(host)
>>>>     user = cgi.escape(user)
>>>>     password = cgi.escape(password)
>>>>
>>>>     try:
>>>>         output = ''
>>>>         command = "wget --user %s --password %s
>>>> http://%s/svn/backend/able1.0/db/db.sql" % (user, password, host)
>>>>         req.write(command)
>>>>         req.write('\n')
>>>>         ouput = os.popen(command).read
>>>>         req.write(output)
>>>>         req.write('\n')        
>>>>
>>>>     except Exception, e:
>>>>         r = sys.exc_info()
>>>>         generator = (str(x) for x in r)
>>>>         newstring = ''.join(generator)
>>>>         req.write(newstring)
>>>>         req.write('\n')
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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