"fileexit" wrote: > thanks... i was to hasty to post this question, i found a good answer > here: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ffdab847125f81b6
that's an old thread, and Python has grown a few more ways to deal with shell commands since then. if os.system isn't good en- ough for you, subprocess is the preferred alternative: http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-subprocess.html (also note that most trivial shell commands are better done in python. most uses of cat, for example, can be trivially emulated with one or two lines of python...) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list