Re: Retaining an object

2005-08-09 Thread Leif K-Brooks
sysfault wrote: > I'm using os.popen() to open that program via the syntax: > os.popen('pidof var_name', 'r'), but as you know var_name is not > expanded within single quotes, os.popen('pidof %s' % var_name, 'r') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Retaining an object

2005-08-09 Thread gry
sysfault wrote: > Hello, I have a function which takes a program name, and I'm using > os.popen() to open that program via the syntax: os.popen('pidof var_name', > 'r'), but as you know var_name is not expanded within single quotes, I > tried using double quotes, and such, but no luck. I was lookin

Retaining an object

2005-08-09 Thread sysfault
Hello, I have a function which takes a program name, and I'm using os.popen() to open that program via the syntax: os.popen('pidof var_name', 'r'), but as you know var_name is not expanded within single quotes, I tried using double quotes, and such, but no luck. I was looking for a way to have var_