John Salerno schrieb: > Here's my new project: I want to write a little script that I can type > at the terminal like this: > > $ scriptname package1 [package2, ...] > > where scriptname is my module name and any subsequent arguments are the > names of Linux packages to install. Running the script as above will > create this line: > > sudo aptitude install package1 package2 ... > > It will run that line at the terminal so the package(s) will be installed. > > Now, the extra functionality I want to add (otherwise I would just > install them normally!) is to save the package names to a text file so I > can now the names of programs I've manually installed, if I ever want to > check the list or remove packages. > > So creating the proper bash command (sudo aptitude install ...) is easy, > and writing the names to a file is easy. But I have two questions: > > 1. First of all, does Linux keep track of the packages you manually > install? If so, then I won't have to do this at all. > > 2. Assuming I write this, how do output the bash command to the > terminal? Is there a particular module that Python uses to interact with > the terminal window that I can use to send the install command to the > terminal?
You don't put a command to the terminal. The shell executes commands. But it is mainly just a program itself - it can spawn subprocesses and make these execute the actual commands. so - the module you need is most probably subprocess. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
