Thanks Aldwin that helps but it looks like it is reversing the numbers for some reason:
the df command returns the following: 7 2 I used your example and did: x,y = set(output.split()) My assumption would be that x should be 7 and y should be 2. However, when I print x and y it seems to be reversed (x is 2 and y is 7). Am I missing something? Thanks On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:49 PM Aldwin Pollefeyt <aldwinaldwin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You could use: > > >>> x, y = set(output.split()) > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 11:44 AM Jagga Soorma <jagg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am new to python and trying to do some basic things with python. I >> am writing a script that runs a df command and I need parts of that >> output saved in 2 different variables. Is this something that can be >> done? I can do this by running multiple df commands but would prefer >> to make only one call: >> >> -- >> inode_cmd = "/bin/df --output=pcent,ipcent /var| grep -v Use | tr '%' ' '" >> output = subprocess.check_output( inode_cmd, >> stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=True ) >> -- >> >> But this would end up giving me the following: >> >> #df --output=pcent,ipcent /var | grep -v Use | tr '%' ' ' >> 5 1 >> >> I would like variable x to be 5 and variable y to be 1. Is there a >> easier way to do this? >> >> Thanks in advance for your guidance. >> -- >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
