[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the Python translation for this Bash statement: > > tar cf - "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | bzip2 > "$file".tar.bz2 > > (Ignoring the fact that "tar cjf" also exists...) > > In other words, how does one pipe together arbitrary commands?
For piping subcommands check out the subprocess module, especially http://docs.python.org/lib/node242.html , for bzip2 check out the bz2 module http://docs.python.org/lib/module-bz2.html , but note, there's also a tarfile module http://docs.python.org/lib/module-tarfile.html which can handle bzip2 as well. HTH, ~Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
