bundles / IPython 9.10.0 / IPython / utils / _process_posix / ProcessHandler / getoutput

function

`IPython.utils._process_posix:ProcessHandler.getoutput`

source: /IPython/utils/_process_posix.py :59

Signature

def getoutput ( self , cmd : str ) → str | None

Summary

Run a command and return its stdout/stderr as a string.

Parameters

cmd : str: A command to be executed in the system shell.

Returns

output : str: A string containing the combination of stdout and stderr from the
: subprocess, in whatever order the subprocess originally wrote to its
: file descriptors (so the order of the information in this string is the
: correct order as would be seen if running the command in a terminal).

Aliases

IPython.utils._process_posix.ProcessHandler.getoutput