Getting Down to Code Step 2

Step 2: How do you control functionality from a program?

import os

os.system('webster insurrection') # Prints to output buffer

# Redirect to a temp file, read it into a variable from there:

os.system('webster painting > /tmp/websterResult')

fd = open('/tmp/websterResult')

# Throw away the first line (reports on contacting Webster server):

fd.readline()

res = fd.read()

print res

fd.close()

os.system('rm /tmp/websterResult')

In Python (could do it in Java, C++…):