johnny wrote: > Can someone tell me what is the reason "[0]" appears after > ".communicate()" > > For example: > last_line=subprocess.Popen([r"tail","-n 1", "x.txt"], > stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
as explained in the documentation, communication() returns two values, as a tuple. [0] is used to pick only the first one. see the Python tutorial for more on indexing and slicing. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
