hi, you get the popen output like this:
u...@unixhost> ls | cat nickname schrieb: > Hi all, > I am a relative newbie to python, I am using os.popen to run an > ls command. The output that I get using the read() function is > different in look and feel from when I run the ls command natively > from the shell (not via python). I display the ouput via python by > using the print function on the variable that accepts the os.popen > ().read() function. ... Thomas -- Thomas Guettler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list