2009/11/29 Anderson Lizardo <anderson.liza...@openbossa.org>:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, shampavman <shampavma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> if anyone can confirm that something like this..
>> os.system("ls > process_output.log")
>> would work , it would be of really great help..
>>
>> Also if there are any alternatives to using os.system. I would like to
>> know..
>
> If all you want is to get a list of files of a directory, try os.listdir():

In case you want to do more complicated things, please think about
using the "subprocess" module and its "Popen" object. It's really easy
and more reliable (e.g. you can read stdout/sterr directly instead of
having to use pipes and output redirection to files):

http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html

Thomas
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