Can we pass some arguments to system("cmdline")?

[Qiangning Hong]

Didier C wrote:
> Hi!
>    I was wondering if we can pass some arguments to system("cmdline")?
> 
> E.g in Perl, we can do something like:
> 
> $dir="/home/cypher";
> 
> system("ls $dir");
> 
> which would instruct Perl to do an "ls /home/cypher"
> 
> But in python, doing something like
> 
> dir="/home/cypher"
> system("ls dir")
> 
> would cause python to execute "ls dir" where "dir" might not exist at
> all! Is there a way to reproduce the same thing in Python?
> 
> Thanks for any insights.
> 
> cheers,
> Didier.

You should use something like this:

dir = "/home/cypher"
system("ls %s" % dir)

-- 
Qiangning Hong

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