[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > popS = string.join(pop.readlines())
Why not popS = pop.read()? > The output from the second popen is: > > SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.9.9.168.1.2.1.1.13.51858 = Hex-STRING: 00 00 00 > 26 > > > I need to get the Hex-STRING into the following format: 0.0038.. I know > how to covert 26 to 38 but I haven't figured out how to pad it or place Have look at ljust/rjust(width[, fillchar]) > the decimal point between the while number and the decimal. What's a while number? Peter Maas, Aachen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list