python on unix [getting started]

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "dsavitsk" == dsavitsk  <dsavitsk at e-coli.net> writes:


    dsavitsk> on unix?  perhaps, where is the proper place to look to
    dsavitsk> start learning about this. any books, or websites, or
    dsavitsk> pieces of code to look at?

Check out this sections of the python library reference

Generic Operating System Services -  http://python.org/doc/current/lib/allos.html

and particularly the subsection 'os' where you can read about
os.systems and the popen (process open) commands.  The latter have
their own section
http://python.org/doc/current/lib/os-newstreams.html#os-newstreams

John Hunter