On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Alan Gauld wrote: > Take a look at the OS topic in my tutorial. The process control section > covers all of these calls and explains their differences. It also points out > that the latter is intended to replace all the others and shows examples.
Excellent; I'll check it out. Your tutorials have been vey helpful to me in the past. > output = popen(command).read() > > isn't too hard is it? That's exactly the sort of thing I'm thinking of. > > string xxxxxxx | grep zzzzzz | head -10 > > But in this case I'd use Pytthon to search for the string and get the > last 10 entries rather than grep/head... That was my initial thought, but the files are 1-3 gigabytes. The string command takes 10-15 minutes to get through a file. I've been using the pipe sequence manually, so I know it works, and only takes a second or two to run. The Python program is for my own use, so I don't have to worry about whether and where string/grep/head are installed. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
