On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 09:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When constructing a particularly long and complicated command to be > sent to the shell, I usually do something like this, to make the > command as easy as possible to follow: > commands.getoutput( > 'mycommand -S %d -T %d ' % (s_switch, t_switch) + > '-f1 %s -f2 %s ' % (filename1, filename2) + > '> %s' % (log_filename) > ) > Can anyone suggest a better way to construct the command, especially > without the "+" sign at the end of each line (except the last) ?
Paul McGuire wrote: > This list might be even simpler to follow: > > l = [ > 'mycommand', > '-S', s_switch, > '-T', t_switch, > '-f1', filename1, > '-f2', filename2, > '>', log_filename > ] > cmd = " ".join(l) And if you use the subprocess module, you won't even need (or want) the final join. STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
