Xah Lee wrote: > does anyone know why the folllowing prints to the screen? > > # python > import os > os.system(r"ls") > > Xah > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ∑ http://xahlee.org/ > It only prints to the screen when standard output of the invoking process is the screen. The sub-process forked by os.system inherits stdin stdout and stderr from the invoking process.
This is all pretty basic stuff. Perhaps you should stop your verbal assault on the computer science community and start to learn the principles of what you are doing. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
