[Zope] Giving out STDOUT

[Jim Washington]

Sorin Marti wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I wrote an external method which compiles a TeX-Source with latex2html. 
> It's very simple... it only calls the command with
> 
> os.system('latex2html /path/to/uploaded_files/%s' %file.filename)
> 
> This command causes an output like "This is latex2html version..." and 
> so on.
> 
> Now I want to give out this Output in a Textarea on a zope site. Is this 
> possible in a way? I tried to do that with the return value but it 
> didn't work...
> 
> 

You may wish to consult the python documentation about the os.popen 
functions.  They can return stdin, stderr, stdout, etc.

-- Jim Washington