A.M wrote:
> It works very fine with DIR command, but for commands like "MD :" it doesn't
> return the error message into the string:
>
> print os.popen('MD :').read()
>
> # No error message
in python, "MD" is spelled os.mkdir.
> Am I missing anything?
the difference between STDOUT and STDERR, and the difference between
buffered output and non-buffered output, and perhaps a few other things
related to how STDIO behaves on modern computers... however, if you
want to pretend that STDOUT and STDERR are the same thing, you can use
os.popen4:
>>> o, i = os.popen4("md :")
>>> i.read()
'The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.\n'
or the subprocess module.
> Considering the fact that Ruby doesn't have any problem with redirecting
> STDOUT into files or string variables, is Python the right tool for
> this kinds of shell scripting?
rewriting BAT files as a series of os.system or os.popen calls isn't
exactly optimal (neither for the computer nor the programmer nor the
future user); better take an hour to skim the "generic operating system
services" section in the library reference, and use built-in functions
wherever you can:
http://docs.python.org/lib/allos.html
the following modules are especially useful:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-glob.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-shutil.html
by using the built-in tools, you get better performance in many cases,
better error handling, and code that's a lot easier to reuse (also on
non-Windows platforms).
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