On 14 Lug, 10:34, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Mechaniks wrote: > > from subprocess import call > > call(['ls', '-l']) > > > How do I get the result (not the exit status of the command) of "ls - > > l" into a variable? > > output = subprocess.Popen(["ls", "-l"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read() > > Peter
Correct, but I would rather use Python's os.listdir() and/or os.stat(). Executing a simple ls running a subprocess is overkill. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
