[Tutor] calling other process?

[Bernard Rankin]

> 
> I sympatjise but to be honest  I never use the backtick trick except at 
> the >>> prompt as a quick and dirty hack. It ranks alongside the _ variable 
> in my book as an interactive utility but it's too easy to miss or misread to use 
> 
> in real code.
> 
> But even popen is easier, I agree, and I am still weaning myself away from 
> popen to Popen... But I can see the reasoning behind the move.
> 
> Of course if you do a lot of that you could always define a function 
> that supplies default values for everything but the command.
> 


True enough.


On a slight different note, what would be the correct subprocess call if I want to pipe an email message to "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"?  

(SMTP, thus smtplib, is not liked very much by the sysadmin)

Thanks again,
:)