Trouble with os.system

[Jerry Hill]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Cpa <cp.astolfi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure.
>
> import sys,re,os
> files2create = sys.argv[1:]
> os.system('mkdir tmp')
>
> # Some code to create the .tex
>
> # Compile tex files
> os.system('for file in tmp/*; do pdflatex "$file"; done')
>
> Pretty simple, alas.

I think your bug is in the lines you chose not to share with us.  I
bet you've forgotten to close the last file you create, so that file
has changes that haven't been flushed out to the disk yet.  Make sure
you call close() on each of the files when you're done writing them.

-- 
Jerry