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2009/5/15 Sander Sweers <sander.swe...@gmail.com>: > 2009/5/14 MK <lop...@gmx.net>: >> i am using this code to send an "cat > ThisIsMyUrl" with popen. > > First, I am not sure if you understand what "cat > ThisIsMyUrl" > actually does... It waits for data on *stdin* and pipes it to > ThisIsMyUrl. It does not provide any data to read! What is it that you > want to accomplish? > > Anyway, why use cat and not use open() and write the data into it? > file = open(working_dir + "/" + subdir + "www.thisismyurl.com", "w") > file.write(your_data_string) > file.close() > >> Of cos cat now waits for the CTRL+D command. > > Well yes and no, cat is waiting for data on stdin and you do not seem > to give any data to it. > >> How can i send this command ? > > CTR-D/EOF normally comes from the data you are piping into cat. For > example the below, it pipes the string "test" to the stdin from cat > which then redirects to a file test.txt. > echo "test" | cat > test.txt > >> def console_command(cmd): >> print cmd >> console = os.popen(cmd,"r") >> output = console.read() >> console.close() >> return output >> >> command="cat > " + working_dir + "/" + subdir + "www.thisismyurl.com" >> console_command(command) > > You should really look at the subprocess module [1]. > > Greets > Sander > > [1] http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
