On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > > Also, "ls | grep" may provide a useful tutorial for the subprocess module, > but if you actually need to enumerate files, use e.g. os.listdir/os.walk() > and re.search/fnmatch, or glob. Spawning child processes to perform tasks > which can easily be performed in Python is inefficient (and often creates > unnecessary portability issues).
I agree with you about the portability issue. However, *ix shell is turning out pretty prescient in the area of performance - there are few languages that parallelize as well if you code to minimize exec's, or that stay as simple when parallelizing - and with multicore processors taking off...
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