"Lawrence Shafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Why doesn't this fill otp with the output of ls?? (I know python has > it's own file tools, I'm just playing around ;) > > otp=os.system(cmd)
Because os.system returnsd the exit status of the command. zero means the command executed OK anything else is an error code. To get the output you need to read stdout or stderr. To do that, the current preferred mechanism is via the subprocess module which replaces os.system/os.popen/commands os.spawn etc etc. The documentation has examples. Also my web -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld tutor at the end of the OS topic has examples of subprocess.Popen as well as the older methods. HTH, _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
