That's what I thought, but running the following command via a web request returns lines of length 0.
command = 'c:\path\plink -ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -pw password dir' lines = os.popen(command).readlines() The exact command works just fine when ran from either a regular python prompt or within the Django shell. Moses On Jun 26, 10:28 am, "Jay Parlar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/26/07, Moses Ting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know if it's possible to make a system command call from a > > Django view? For example, I'd like to make the following call > > straight from Django. > > > import os > > os.system('echo Hello World') > > A view is just a regular Python function, you can do whatever you want. > > Jay P. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---