@alan: Thank you very much for the information you provided and also for
suggesting your tutorial. I am now studying the subprocess module. I was
impressed with the depth of your tutorial and am studying it as well (and not
just for my current problem). Thanks again.
@dave: Thanks for your repl
Hi. I've not been working with Python very long and have run into a puzzling
thing. I'm working on a program that needs to identify the filetype of files
without extensions. Using the file command in the shell works fantastic, as in:
rob...@ubuntu:~$ file
