"Matt Erasmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Yes, that does help, although it doesn't print the FQDN which is > what > I'm really after. > But thanks to you I now know about the socket module
It is very rarely necessaary to use popen etc to get basic system information or to perform basic OS commanfs. There are usually direct function/modules that do the same job more efficiently. popen is good for running actual applications but if you find yourself using it for lower level tasks consider a google search for python <term>. In this case 'python hostname' gets me the socket module docs as the first hit... HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
