Re: os.system questions

2007-03-31 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have a couple bugs to work out in the below script; namely, I don't >know how to capture the result of an os.system command, nor am I >convinced that the call to os.system actually results in the execution >of the command. H

Re: os.system questions

2007-03-31 Thread David Brochu
From: "Eric Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: March 31, 2007 9:38:53 AM EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: os.system questions Oops! The problem isn't in the os.system call. It's in the fact that I don'

Re: os.system questions

2007-03-31 Thread Eric Price
Thank you :) Eric >From: "Parthan SR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Eric Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: os.system questions >Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:52:01 +0530 > >On 3/31/07, Eric Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>

Re: os.system questions

2007-03-31 Thread Eric Price
a cron event such that "freshReboot" actually gets called when I run test.py? TIA, Eric >From: "Eric Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: python-list@python.org >Subject: Re: os.system questions >Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:33:03 -0400 > &g

Re: os.system questions

2007-03-31 Thread Eric Price
Great! That seems to work fine: #!/usr/local/bin/python import re, os def freshReboot(): up = os.popen('uptime').readlines() up = up[0] if re.search('day|hour', up): pass else: tup = re.split('min', up) first = tup[0]

Re: os.system questions

2007-03-31 Thread Amit Khemka
On 3/31/07, Eric Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi; > I have a couple bugs to work out in the below script; namely, I don't know > how to capture the result of an os.system command, nor am I convinced that > the call to os.system actually results in the execution of the command. Here > is the s

Re: os.system questions

2007-03-31 Thread Thomas Krüger
Eric Price schrieb: > up = os.system("uptime") > How do I assign the output of "uptime" to the variable "up"? | >>> print os.system.__doc__ | system(command) -> exit_status | | Execute the command (a string) in a subshell. os.system returns the exitcode of the given command. To get the output try