[Biopython] subprocess.Popen problem

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 2 09:42:15 UTC 2011


On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Mic <mictadlo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you, but is it possible to store the SOAP output in the memory/file in
> order to retrieve the following statistics lines?
> Total Pairs: 1000 PE
> Paired:      35 ( 3.50%) PE
> Singled:     170 ( 8.50%) SE
> Total Elapsed Time:           24.00
>       - Load Index Table:     23.22
>       - Alignment:             0.78
> Thank you in advance.

Assuming that is written to stdout, just collect it as a pipe (handle)
via subprocess, or since it is short, use the .communicate method
and get this as a string.

http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html

Peter




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