>
> I sympatjise but to be honest I never use the backtick trick except at
> the >>> prompt as a quick and dirty hack. It ranks alongside the _ variable
> in my book as an interactive utility but it's too easy to miss or misread to
> use
>
> in real code.
>
> But even popen is easier, I agree, and I am still weaning myself away from
> popen to Popen... But I can see the reasoning behind the move.
>
> Of course if you do a lot of that you could always define a function
> that supplies default values for everything but the command.
>
True enough.
On a slight different note, what would be the correct subprocess call if I want
to pipe an email message to "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"?
(SMTP, thus smtplib, is not liked very much by the sysadmin)
Thanks again,
:)
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