On Feb 27, 2:36 pm, "Sriram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello svata, > It is always better to compose your string before you send it as a > command. > > try printing your command string out like this : > print 'gvim dir+fileName+".txt". You'll see what the problem is. > > One possible solution is to compose your command string in the > following manner: > cmd = "gvim %s%s.txt" %(dir, fileName) > and simply call os.system with cmd. > os.system(cmd) > > Here is a little more detail on string format > specifiershttp://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html > > HTH > Sriram > > On Feb 27, 7:24 am, "svata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > as I'm new to python I've stumbled accros os.system and its not very > > well documented usage. > > > I use Win XP Pro and Python 2.5. > > > Here is the code snippet: > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > import time > > import os > > > dir = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\somepath\\" > > fileName = time.strftime("%d%m%Y") > > os.system('gvim dir+fileName+".txt"') > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The problem is that concatenated variable dir+fileName doesn't get > > expanded as expected. > > > Is there anything I omitted? > > > svata
Thank you for prompt reply. I should be more concise with strings, I think :) svata -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
