James Colannino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey everyone. First off, I'm new to the list. I had had a little bit
> of experience with Perl before discovering Python. The more Python I
> learn, the more I love it :) I just have a quick question to ask. I
> know that this is probably a simple question, but I've been googling
> around, and partly because I'm not sure exactly what to search for,
> I've been unsuccessful at finding an answer. What I'd like to do is
> be able to take the output of an external command and assign it as an
> array of strings. So, for example, in Perl I could do something like:
>
> @files = `ls`;
>
> So I guess I'm looking for something similiar to the backticks in
> Perl. Forgive me if I've asked something that's a bit basic for this
> list. Any help would be greatly appreciated :) Thanks very much in
> advance.
This is a scripting language feature. Python doesn't have direct
support for it, any more than C++ does. To get that functionality, you
want to use either the os.popen function, or - preferable, but only
available in newer Pythons - the subprocess module.
<mike
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