When constructing a particularly long and complicated command to be sent to the shell, I usually do something like this, to make the command as easy as possible to follow:
commands.getoutput( 'mycommand -S %d -T %d ' % (s_switch, t_switch) + '-f1 %s -f2 %s ' % (filename1, filename2) + '> %s' % (log_filename) ) Can anyone suggest a better way to construct the command, especially without the "+" sign at the end of each line (except the last) ? If I take out the "+", then I need to move all the variables to the end, as so: commands.getoutput( 'mycommand -S %d -T %d ' '-f1 %s -f2 %s ' '> %s' % (s_switch, t_switch, filename1, filename2, log_filename) ) or: commands.getoutput( '''mycommand -S %d -T %d \ -f1 %s -f2 %s \ > %s''' % (s_switch, t_switch, filename1, filename2, log_filename) ) but having the variables line-by-line as in the first example is so much easier to edit, is it not? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list