How do I translate Ruby's IO.popen calls into Python's subprocess.Popen calls?

Question

I've read the documentation and I've tried lots of things in the REPL, and Googled, but I can't for the life of me understand how subprocess.Popen works in Python.

Here is some Ruby code I am using:

IO.popen("some-process") do |io|
  while(line = io.gets)
    # do whatever with line
  end
end

How do I translate this into Python using subprocess.Popen?

Answer 1

Probably the simplest "close relative" of your Ruby code in Python:

>>> import subprocess
>>> io = subprocess.Popen('ls', stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout
>>> for line in io: print(line.strip())

Answer 2

import subprocess

process = subprocess.Popen(['ls',], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
print process.communicate()[0]