That should work. I've got the very same thing for a perl script and
it prints a big multi-line output.
-Rob
> On 20010816.1558, larry a price said ...
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> Hey,
> i was wondering if any of the php wiz's here could give me some guidance
> i'm trying to pass data to a python program from a php script and get
> output back to php as a raw string.
>
> I tried
>
> <?php system("python /full/path/to/program.py $data"); ?>
>
> and get the first token in $data back rather than the output of program.py
> I have program.py's run permissions set properly and from setting a few
> debug options i know that program.py is running(it writes to a log)
> what is it that i don't understand about php that's causing this.
>
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