Re: alternative to hardcoding system util paths

2010-09-16 Thread Daniel da Silva
You could also use the subprocess module, which like os.system, doesn't care about the absolute path of the executable. import subprocess p = subprocess.Popen(['aptitude', 'search', 'gnome']) p.wait() On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Cosme Domínguez wrote: > 2010/9/17 Stephen Burke : > > I'm wr

Newcomer interested in taking on project to add colors to apt-get/apt-cache

2010-09-15 Thread Daniel da Silva
Hi all, I'm a newcomer to the Ubuntu Development community, but long time linux user. I am interested in starting a patch to add colored output to the apt-get/apt-cache (are there any other apt-*s?)[see bug link in footnote]. Gentoo, for example, does this very nicely with their emerge tool. I was