quoth the James Colannino: > 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.
If all you want is filenames this will work:
>>> import glob
>>> files = ["%s" % f for f in glob.glob("*")]
Else use os.popen to iterate over lines of output:
>>> import os
>>> for line in os.popen("ls -l").readlines():
>>> . . . process(line)
Or check out subprocess if you have 2.4..
> James
>
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