On Nov 12, 4:58 pm, Rebelo <puntabl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dana četvrtak, 8. studenoga 2012. 19:05:12 UTC+1, korisnik jkn napisao je: > > > Hi All > > > i am trying to build up a set of subprocess.Ponen calls to > > > replicate the effect of a horribly long shell command. I'm not clear > > > how I can do one part of this and wonder if anyone can advise. I'm on > > > Linux, fairly obviously. > > > J^n > > You should try to do it in pure python, avoiding shell altogether. > The first step would be to actually write what it is you want to do. >
Hi Rebelo FWIW I intend to do exactly this - but I wanted to duplicate the existing shell action beforehand, so that I could get rid of the shell command. After I've tidied things up, that will be my next step. Cheers Jon N -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list