Is there a way to get the output of a bash script to "feed" into a variable in a python script that executes the action initially?

Question

So, I have a bash script that feeds out data from a sensor that is connected to the NVidea Jetson TK-1 in string format in the shell. Is there any way I can run a python script that initializes the bash script. Takes the output data in bash, feeds it back into a python string variable where it can be parsed? I cannot edit the bash script.

Thanks

Answer 1

In python:

   import subprocess
   bash_output = subprocess.check_output('run bash script here')

Subprocess.check_output sends commands to the shell and the shell pipes the results back to python. Look at examples of using and documentation on subprocess.check_output here.