On 24/08/12 17:05, Ray Jones wrote:
On 08/24/2012 12:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On 24/08/12 16:27, Ray Jones wrote:
I am forever confused, however, on which methods can be found where. I
just spent quarter of an hour searching in sys,* os.*, and shutil.*. for
a 'kill' command that I knew I
On 24/08/2012 08:02, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On 24/08/12 16:27, Ray Jones wrote:
I am forever confused, however, on which methods can be found where. I
just spent quarter of an hour searching in sys,* os.*, and shutil.*. for
a 'kill' command that I knew I'd seen beforeI found it hidden in
su
On 08/24/2012 12:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On 24/08/12 16:27, Ray Jones wrote:
>
>> I am forever confused, however, on which methods can be found where. I
>> just spent quarter of an hour searching in sys,* os.*, and shutil.*. for
>> a 'kill' command that I knew I'd seen beforeI found it
On 24/08/12 16:27, Ray Jones wrote:
I am forever confused, however, on which methods can be found where. I
just spent quarter of an hour searching in sys,* os.*, and shutil.*. for
a 'kill' command that I knew I'd seen beforeI found it hidden in
subprocess.Popen. Arrrgggh. These various impor
On 08/23/2012 10:37 PM, eryksun wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Ray Jones wrote:
>
>> For example, if I wish to test if a file exists, I might do
>>
>> test = Popen('[ -f file-i-want-to-test-for ]')
>>
>> But the moment I invoke Bash for a test, I must deal with the fact that
>> Bash re
On 08/23/2012 09:53 PM, aklei...@sonic.net wrote:
>> As I code Python, I find myself falling back on Bash to handle basic OS
>> tasks. How do you gurus deal with Python --> Bash conflicts?
>>
>> For example, if I wish to test if a file exists, I might do
>>
>> test = Popen('[ -f file-i-want-to-test
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Ray Jones wrote:
> For example, if I wish to test if a file exists, I might do
>
> test = Popen('[ -f file-i-want-to-test-for ]')
>
> But the moment I invoke Bash for a test, I must deal with the fact that
> Bash returns a zero for true and a non-zero for false.
> As I code Python, I find myself falling back on Bash to handle basic OS
> tasks. How do you gurus deal with Python --> Bash conflicts?
>
> For example, if I wish to test if a file exists, I might do
>
> test = Popen('[ -f file-i-want-to-test-for ]')
>
> But the moment I invoke Bash for a test, I
As I code Python, I find myself falling back on Bash to handle basic OS
tasks. How do you gurus deal with Python --> Bash conflicts?
For example, if I wish to test if a file exists, I might do
test = Popen('[ -f file-i-want-to-test-for ]')
But the moment I invoke Bash for a test, I must deal wit
