On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:31 PM, J <dreadpiratej...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So what's the point of the commands module, or is that one that only > works in Linux, and not Windows?
At the very top of http://docs.python.org/library/commands.html it says "Platforms: Unix", so yes, it's Unix-only. > I can do what I want, I think, by > using os.popen(), but I wanted to know if there was a better way of > doing it. Also at the top of that same bit of documentation is this: "The subprocess module provides more powerful facilities for spawning new processes and retrieving their results. Using the subprocess module is preferable to using the commands module." I would start with http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html and http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/subprocess/ for more information about the subprocess module and how it works. -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
