Pink wrote: > Rigga wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am running the line of code below from a shell script and it works >> fine, however I am at a total loss on how i can run it from within a >> Python script as every option I have tried fails and it appears to be >> down to the escaping of certain characters. >> >> wget -q www.anywebpage.com -O - | tr '\r' '\n' | tr \' \" | sed -n >> 's/.*url="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' > If your problem is getting a python string without worrying about how to > escape the escape sequences, try: > > r"""wget -q www.anywebpage.com -O - | tr '\r' '\n' | tr \' \" | sed -n > 's/.*url="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p'""" > > You should be able to pass this directly to a popen() function.
Hi, Thanks for replying however I have just tried that and it does not seem to work, it doesnt return any results (i take it the r was a typo) Thanks RiGGa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list