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finally got it! thanks to spjackson who answered my other post!
it would be

volume = subprocess.check_output("amixer get Master", shell=True)
print(volume)

THANK YOU!! Worked perfectly.
I'm using it to make an indicator for alsa sound volume. I deleted pulseaudio and theirs no indicator for people that only use alsa.

It's working good now. I am...

im not sure if this is supposed to be simple or really complicated or if its possible (really hope so),
but i want to be able to send out a command to the terminal from python which i can do like...

1.self.ind = appindicator.Indicator("MyApp", 2. "/home/jordiston/Pictures/Numbers/0.png",
4. ...

It doesn't work, I'm pretty sure it's because I deleted pulseaudio.
Don't think their is a sound indicator made for people who only use alsa. I despise pulseaudio but I love indicators, so Im going...

i have uninstalled pulseaudio and got rid of all the audio problems i've been having. although it also got rid of my audio indicator on the top panel. i use alsa now with gnome-alsamixer. got it to...

nevermind i found i can just uninstall it so i did that and now use alsa with gnome-alsamixer. unfortunate cuz now i have no volume indicator on my desktop, and it took me forever to get my hotkeys...

i got it back, just put my documents folder back home and made a link on my desktop called documents that led to my documents at home, wasnt a perfect solution but worked for awhile. so i decided to...

I somehow moved my documents folder from the its original place (home) to my desktop, now on my desktop it has the documents icon and if I click on my documents library it opens up. But I don't want...

i have installed and got itunes 7.2 working very stable with wine 1.4, it plays my music the only problem is seemingly at random times when using itunes my pulse audio kinda looses control it goes...

nevermind about this, ive been trying all day to get wine to read my external hard drive with a drive letter, turns out just by having it plugged in ubuntu mounts it to my /media/passport folder...

I would like to be able to access my external usb hard drive in some of the windows programs i run with wine. i found this which shows how it can be done
http://wiki.winehq.org/USB
i still think...

Thanks! Yea I don't really know how to do anything with the command terminal. So it's a good thing that boot repair program fixed everything for me lol.
I just installed it and ran it from the...

I wanted to set up Ubuntu on an external usb hard drive. So I did that. Got it all installed on the external drive with a boot CD, but it set it up as a dual boot on my computer. Now if I don't have...