Pipe Ipython magic output to a variable?

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I want to run a bash script in my ipython Notebook and save the output as a string in a python variable for further manipulation. Basically I want to pipe the output of the bash magic to a variable, For example the output of something like this:

%%bash
some_command [options] foo bar
ipython-notebook ipython-magic python-2.7 ipython python
3 Answers

Notice the difference in the variable type between @MattDMo (SList) and @oLas (str) answers:

In [1]: output = !whoami

In [2]: type(output)
Out[2]: IPython.utils.text.SList

In [3]: %%bash --out output
   ...: whoami

In [4]: type(output)
Out[4]: str
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