Thanks for the answer and help. Cheers :)
Peter Hansen wrote: > cantabile wrote: > >> Hi, Peter >> Thanks for the reply. I'll check popen(). >> But you said I should not rely on fdisk... Why ? And should I prefer >> sfdisk ? Why ? > > > I was under the impression that fdisk was older and more primitive, but > a quick check shows I'm probably not only wrong, but had it backwards! > (The man page for fdisk says "try parted, then fdisk, then sfdisk" > basically...) > > Also, as you saw in Jeff's reply, there's a commands.getoutput() > function that does basically what popen() would do, so just use whatever > seems simplest. > > -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
