capturing output of os.system() into a list?

[Ron]

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thursday 13 December 2001 12:06 pm, Ron wrote:
>> Is there a built-in method of doing this?  I can write a function
>> to do it, but would rather use the standard method.
> 
> something like:
> 
>>>> import os
>>>> os.popen('ls').readlines()
> ['addDataManager.dtml\n', 'addExtDataContainer.dtml\n',
[snip]
> 'VERSION.txt\n', 'www\n']

Thanks to both of you.  

I knew there had to be something.  It's just that there's *so 
many* libraries that us hobbiests (and who aren't C/Unix weenies) 
don't have a chance to learn it all.

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