Get wget output in python variable

Question

I am able to download the file using wget and I can see the progress in the console, But how can we store this output into a python variable ?.

a sample code give below, I am excepting something like this.

output = os.popen('wget https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python3/python3_tutorial.pdf')

Possible duplicate of [Assign output of os.system to a variable and prevent it from being displayed on the screen](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3503879/assign-output-of-os-system-to-a-variable-and-prevent-it-from-being-displayed-on) — Peter Wood, May 18 '17 at 13:28
@ Peter Wood,wget result is different than other os command results — Arun, May 18 '17 at 13:30

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '17 at 13:27

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In general you can catch stdout of programs with subprocess

import subprocess

output = subprocess.check_output('ping localhost', stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=True)

answered May 18 '17 at 13:27

Serve Laurijssen

@Arun That's [an answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/3504154/1084416) on the linked duplicate – Peter Wood May 18 '17 at 13:47

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 18 '17 at 13:26

I wouldn't recommend using wget, use urllib instead: https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html.

If you must use wget just read the output file after wget writes it.

os.system('wget https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python3/python3_tutorial.pdf -O your_file_path')
print open('your_file_path').read()

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