Any way to assign terminal output to variable with python?
- by Gordon Fontenot
I need to grab the duration of a video file via python as part of a larger script. I know I can use ffmpeg to grab the duration, but I need to be able to save that output as a variable back in python. I thought this would work, but it's giving me a value of 0:
cmd = 'ffmpeg -i %s 2>&1 | grep "Duration" | cut -d \' \' -f 4 | sed s/,//' % ("Video.mov")
duration = os.system(cmd)
print duration
Am I doing the output redirect wrong? Or is there simply no way to pipe the terminal output back into python?
