On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Vinay Reddy wrote:
> > Anyway, how do I call bash to run a program - e.g. slocate - from > > within a python program. I believe that I have to import the OS first > > (or do I?) and I was thinking something like: > > > > ... > > sh slocate file_name > python_defined_list > > You can directly run slocate (or any other program) using the > os.popen* command. Refer to: > http://docs.python.org/lib/os-newstreams.html. > And you do need to import the os module. Hi Joe, Also, if you have a recent version of Python (Python 2.4), the 'subprocess' module might be worth a look: http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-subprocess.html > > This is to populate a list which would then become the filename list > > for the remove file command to iterate through sequentially and > > delete, as in: > > > > for i in python_defined_list: > > rm -fr i 'shutil' and its rmtree() function may be helpful for you: http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-shutil.html Good luck! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
