[Tutor] Running external commands from Python

2010-06-25 Thread Randy Kao
Hi all, I'm a newbie to Python (switching from Perl) and had a question about the best way to run external commands in Python. In doing some reading I'm confused about which is the best way to accomplish this. With Perl, the way I went about running commands was by opening a filehandle and parsi

Re: [Tutor] Running external commands from Python

2010-06-25 Thread Randy Kao
Thanks for the great and quick feedback from everyone! That definitely clears things up. -Randy On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:46:17 am Randy Kao wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm a newbie to Python (switching from