"Dave Kuhlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > But, if you want more control, then look at these functions/modules > in the Pyhon standard library: > > - popen, popen2, etc -- http://docs.python.org/lib/os-process.html
Or the new(ish) subprocess module which supercedes system(), popenX(), commands, spawn(), execX() etc But yes, to read the output of your command you need more than system() which only returns the exit code of the command, usually zero. > - tarfile -- http://docs.python.org/lib/module-tarfile.html He is already using this one :-) Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
