Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
First, apologies for such a newbie question; if there's a better forum
(I've poked around, some) feel free to point it out to me. Anyway, a
mere 25-odd years after first hearing about OOP, I've finally decided
to go to it, by way of Python. But this puzzles me:
import commands
free = commands.getoutput("free")
for line in free:
print line,
Gives:
t o t a l u s e d f r e e
s h a r e d b u f f e r s c a c h e d
M e m : 5 1 5 9 9 2 4 6 0 4 5 2
5 5 5 4 0
0 7 7 5 1 6 9 1 8 8 4
- / + b u f f e r s / c a c h e : 2 9 1 0 5 2 2
2 4 9 4 0
Why are there spaces between everything? And how do I keep it from
happening? *confused*
Thanks much,
-Ken
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The variable 'free' is a string containing all of the output, not a file
object or a sequence of strings. Therefore, when you iterate free you
iterate a sequence of characters. This is different than the case of
iterating an open file, which would give you a sequence of lines as you
expect.
So ...
print line,
... prints each character followed by a space and no newline.
You can do this instead:
import commands
free = commands.getoutput("free")
print free
- Ken (that's my name too)
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