Didier C wrote: > E.g in Perl, we can do something like: > > $dir="/home/cypher"; > > system("ls $dir"); > > Is there a way to reproduce the same thing in Python?
system("ls %s" % dir) But you should really be using subprocess for security (so that if dir=="/home/foo; rm -rf /" nothing bad will happen): import subprocess subprocess.Popen(['ls', dir]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list