Roger, I have been doing it the Pythonic way (that is why I have no idea about how Popen works) but I need to make sure (the systems guys called me on it) I use the same dtg as everyone else...it is possible (has not happened yet in 20 years) it could be set to something else.
Is the example you gave using the new 2.4 Popen? It looks like the older popen. I can get the older popen to work but not Popen. Thanks again. John Ertl -----Original Message----- From: Roger Merchberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Tutor] Popen? or something else Rumor has it that Ertl, John may have mentioned these words: >All, > >I hate to ask this but I have just installed 2.4 and I need to get some info >from a subprocess (I think that is correct term). > >At the Linux command line if I input dtg I get back a string representing a >date time group. How do I do this in Python? I would think Popen but I >just don't see it. It could, but there's also a better (IMHO), 'pythonic' way, something like this: def gettoday(): import time today = time.strftime('%Y%m%d%H',time.localtime(time.time())) return (today) >$ dtg >2004122212 If you wanted to use popen, it would look rather like this: import os dtg_s = os.popen("/path/to/dtg").readlines()[0] But this may use more system resources (spawning child shells & whatnot) than doing everything internally with the time module in Python. HTH, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | A new truth in advertising slogan SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers | for MicroSoft: "We're not the oxy... [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ...in oxymoron!" _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
