I need to read out the text from a cmd prompt window (which updates every second) in my Python program. I'm using Windows 7. Anyone have an idea how to do this?
edit:
I didn’t explain it very well. The cmd prompt is already open and I need to read out everything it prints. I have to "link" my Python program to the command prompt.
You should read :module-subprocess
>>> subprocess.check_output(["echo", "Hello World!"])
'Hello World!\n'
Have you tried sys.argv ?.
import sys
print sys.argv[1:]
The first argument will be your file name.
Just do subprocess.check_output()
import subprocess
command = "dir"
output = subprocess.check_output(command, shell=True, text=True)
print(output)
Don't forget to add shell=True and text=True argument
while True: print(open("CON:").read())