output from external commands
Kent Johnson
kent37 at tds.net
Mon Oct 24 07:53:12 EDT 2005
darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the James Colannino:
>>So, for example, in Perl I could do something like:
>>
>>@files = `ls`;
>>
>>So I guess I'm looking for something similiar to the backticks in Perl.
>>Forgive me if I've asked something that's a bit basic for this list.
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated :) Thanks very much in advance.
>
>
> If all you want is filenames this will work:
>
>>>>import glob
>>>>files = ["%s" % f for f in glob.glob("*")]
or
import os
files = os.listdir('.')
Python has built-in support for many file manipulations, see the os, os.path and shutil modules.
Kent
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