[Tutor] how to extract number of files from directory

[Eric Walker]

I think os.system returns status of commands

Try this:
w = os.popen('ls -l | wc -l').readlines()

Python Newbie...

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:10 pm, Marc Buehler wrote:
> hi.
>
> i'm new to Python ...
>
> i would like to extract the number of JPG files
> from the current directory and use that number
> as a parameter in my python script.
> i tried:
>  a = os.system('ls *JPG | wc -l')
> when i do:
>  print a
> i get '0'.
>
> what am i missing?
>
> marc
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