Calling external programs: ioredirection

[Moshe Zadka]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Thaddeus L. Olczyk wrote:

> I want to do this in order to do things similar to sh. For example:
> 
> wc -l *.h *.cpp|awk 'begin int i=0; {i+=$1 } end print i;}'
> 
> ( I know the script is probably wrong, but you get the idea. )
> 
> Any idea of how?

Yes, read about "os.popen" and "os.system". But the real answer is that
you *don't* want to do it -- Python has fine modules to do all those
things, and it's much easier and efficient to use them.

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