hortitude@gmail.com wrote:
> I am trying to run the following script:
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import popen2
>
> commandToRun = """scp scp_trial.py user@host:/targetDirectory"""
> #commandToRun = "ls"
> print commandToRun
> p_out, p_in = popen2.popen4 (commandToRun)
>
> theOut = p_out.readlines ()
> print theOut
>
>
> When I run this command with the "ls" command I see the output.
> When I run this with the scp command I do not see the output of my
> command -- however the file is successfully transfered. How can I see
> the output?
>
> Thanks
>

I'm not up on my scp, but look at popen3 and read from err.

James