On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 16:16, extraspecialbitter <pauldavidm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> if line[10:20] == "Link encap": > interface=line[:9] > cmd = 'ethtool %interface' > print cmd > gp = os.popen(cmd) because you're saying that cmd is 'ethtool %interface' as you pointed out later on... how about: cmd = 'ethtool %s' % interface note the spaces there... that tells it to convert the contents of interface to a string and insert them into the string you're assigning to cmd... assuming interface is things like eth0, you shoud now see "ethtool eth0" when the print statement runs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
