In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, DwBear75 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am considering using python as a replacement for a lot of bash >scripting that I have been doing. I would like to be as cross platform . . . >2) nifty lambda's or other things to create functions fit for the >environment >3) capturing return codes of other executables called from python; ie >use os.system, or popen? or ?
I don't understand 2); maybe <URL: http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/projects/comar/PythonInPardus.html > is a response, although I suspect it's at a different level than you had in mind. For 3), read <URL: http://docs.python.org/lib/node536.html > on "Replacing os.system()", although I have several personal quibbles with details of the subprocess reference documentation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list