Nader, You've got a couple problems. First, you need to end the string before putting a continuation in. Secondly, you have 6 variables to be substituted and only provide 4. Here's some code, edited to show how to use continutations to join strings:
>>> mosbin, jaar, filetype = (1,1,1) >>> cmd = '%s/mos user wmarch, cd /fa/wm/%s/%s, mkdir %s, put %s'\ ... '%s' % (mosbin, jaar, filetype, filetype, filetype, filetype) >>> cmd '1/mos user wmarch, cd /fa/wm/1/1, mkdir 1, put 1, chmod 6441' Peace Bill Mill bill.mill at gmail.com On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:16:32 +0000, Nader Emami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.S., > > I have a long command in Unix and I have to use os.system(cmd) > statement. I do the following: > > cmd = '%s/mos user wmarch, cd /fa/wm/%s/%s, mkdir %s, put %s, chmod 644 > %s' % (mosbin, jaar, filetype, filetype) > status = os.system(cmd) > > This is not very clear, and I have to break this long line in two > segment by means of the next character '\' : > cmd = '%s/mos user wmarch, cd /fa/wm/%s/%s, mkdir %s, put %s, \ > chmod 644 %s' % (mosbin, jaar, filetype, filetype) > > But in this case I get a syntax error! I don't know how I can solve this > problem. Could somebody tell me about this? > > With regards, > Nader > > (this > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
