Hi, On Fri, May 27 2011, Henry Vélez Molina wrote: > Also you could use this script: > > #!/usr/bin/python -tt > import subprocess > getserial = subprocess.Popen(['cat /ofw/serial-number'], shell=True, > stdout=subprocess.PIPE) > for line in getserial.stdout: > print(line.decode().strip())
There's no need to spawn a shell, and then spawn cat inside a shell. Python knows how to open files: print open("/ofw/serial-number").readline().strip() -- Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel