[Tutor] Filesystem Usage

[wesley chun]

> How can I go about getting info similar to that which the UNIX df
> command provides - of filesystem usage and inode usage?  I could just
> shell out and run a df command, but I would rather use python
> bindings.

this sounds like it will require some work to implement 'df' in
Python, *and* it would be slower than its C counterpart.  rather than
just purely shelling out [with os.system() say], i'd use the one of
the {os,popen2}.popen*() functions or the subprocess module and
actually call 'df' but use Python to communicate with it (sending it
stuff via stdin and receiving output from it [stdout or stderr]).

hope this helps a little!
-- wesley
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