Hi all, to obtain a file list from a dir you can use: import os, sys try: . sExtension=sys.argv[1] . sPath=sys.argv[2] except: . sExtension="" . sPath='.' lF=os.listdir(sPath) # to remove from the list also the names of backup files lF=filter(lambda lF: '~' not in lF and sExtension in lF,lF)
Running this small script you obtain the file list (based on a given extension) from a dir (sPath). My question is: is there another better way? or can we use the sys.stdin to capture the stdout of a shell command? Examples of single line shell commands could be: ls -1 *.py (for the filenames only) or find ~/ -name '*.py' (to get path+filename of all my root dir) Unluckily, to capture the stdout I have to redirect it to a file... I hoped that this could work ... lF=sys.stdin.readline(os.system("ls -1 *.py")) Bye. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list