On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Steven W. Orr <ste...@syslang.net> wrote: > I look everywhere but I couldn't find anything. Could someone please point > me to a small example program that does an import rpm, takes an rpm file as > an argument and gets the list of files contained in the file, the same as if > I had used the commandline > > rpm -pql foo-1.23-4.i586.rpm > > Much appreciated.
#! /usr/bin/env python import sys import commands if __name__ == "__main__": rpm = sys.argv[1] print commands.getoutput("rpm -pql %s" % rpm) Input validation and help text left as an exercise for the reader. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list