The program does not work the way I wanted it to. I want the output of the top command to be seen only by the python program. The program I made causes the top command to print its output to the terminal. Using subprocess.Popen() with stdout=subprocess.PIPE does prevent the top command's output from being printed to the terminal. Now I need a way to actually work with that output. Would you know a way to do this?

I can't use the communicate() function because it blocks until the top command quits.