It kinda worked for me but I had to change it a little: os.system('for file in /tmp/*.tex; do pdflatex "$file"; done')
Maybe you're picking up other files in /tmp that are not .tex files? On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Cpa <cp.asto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sure. > > import sys,re,os > files2create = sys.argv[1:] > os.system('mkdir tmp') > > # Some code to create the .tex > > # Compile tex files > os.system('for file in tmp/*; do pdflatex "$file"; done') > > Pretty simple, alas. > > -- > Cpa > > > On 3 fév, 18:54, Gerald Britton <gerald.brit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Can you post your code? >> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Cpa <cp.asto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi there, >> >> > I'm having some trouble with os.system on Fedora 12. >> > I have a bunch of .tex files in tmp/ and I want to compile them. >> > In my shell, the following commands work perfectly : 'for file in tmp/ >> > *.tex; do pdflatex "$file"; done'. >> >> > But if I use the same command using os.system(), it will compile >> > correctly every file except the last one, for which it raises an error >> > (I get a prompt, as if I did a syntax error in tex document). >> >> > I suspected some kind of escaping issue, but it won't even work with >> > files such as : foo.txt, bar.txt. >> >> > Any idea ? >> > Thanks, >> > Cpa >> > -- >> >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> >> -- >> Gerald Britton > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Gerald Britton -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list