[Tutor] Popen? or something else

[Israel C. Evans]

Fun!

testo = [line for line in commands.getoutput('ls -la').split('\n')]
for line in testo:
    print line

spits out nicely formatted ls data.

It's Shelly!



Ertl, John wrote:

>Hugo,
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>That looks like it will work great.  
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>Thanks,
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>John 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hugo González Monteverde [mailto:hugonz-lists at h-lab.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:41
>To: tutor at python.org
>Cc: Ertl, John
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] Popen? or something else
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>You may use the 'commands' module, if your subprocess should return
>right away, then you can use:
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>##
>import commands
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>mystring = commands.getoutput("dtg")
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>##
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>then mystring should have "2004122212" (and possibly '\n', but you'll
>have to check that out, not sure about your command)in it...
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>Hope it helps, it sure is quicker than popen (I only use popen if I need
>to keep  reading the output, for a one-time capture, I personally prefer
>the "commands" module...)
>
>Hugo
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>Ertl, John wrote:
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>>Roger,
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>>I have been doing it the Pythonic way (that is why I have no idea about
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>how
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>>Popen works) but I need to make sure (the systems guys called me on it)  I
>>use the same dtg as everyone else...it is possible (has not happened yet
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>in
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>>20 years) it could be set to something else.
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