def cCheckViewDS(viewTag, limit): logger.info("{myquota} {view} | grep {limit}".format(myquota=bmc.config.get('myquota'),view=viewTag,limit=limit)) p1 = Popen([bmc.config.get('myquota'), viewTag], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE) p2 = Popen(['grep', limit], stdin=p1.stdout, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT) output = p2.communicat()[0] logger.debug(output)