On 30 Jul 2012, at 23:56, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
> lspci gets all its information from the files in /sys/bus/pci/devices.
>
> You can use os.listdir() to list all the files in the folder and then open
> the files you want to get the data you need.
> Gee, wouldn't it be more portable to parse lspci? I wouldn't put it past the
> (Linux) kernel devs to move the pseudo-filesystems around again...
No. The app is less stable the the linux user api gureentee.
I have been bitten with app output format changes but the /sys files have been
Reliable and far better focused at answering questions.
>
> And of course you can write list comprehensions on as many lines as
> it take to make the code maintainable.
> Sigh, and I'm also not keen on multi-line list comprehensions, specifically
> because I think they tend to make less readable code. It also becomes a mess
> when you need to insert print statements to get some visibility into what's
> going on.
>
With out trading examples of production code this is resolverable.
Barry
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