On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 2:50 AM, <sbre...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > I wonder if the additional new line charachter at the end of the standard > output capture is on purpose with 'subprocess.check_output'? > >>>> subprocess.check_output([ 'cygpath', 'C:\\' ]) > '/cygdrive/c\n' > > If I do the same from the shell there is no extra new line (which is correct > I believe): > > $ x=$(cygpath C:\\); echo "_${x}_" > _/cygdrive/c_ > > Surely I have a workaround. I was more interested whether it was a design > flaw.
What you may have there is the shell $( ) handling changing the program's output. Try piping the command into 'hd' or similar to see what it actually produces; it's entirely possible the \n is there, and the shell is stripping it. In any case, you can easily trim whitespace from inside Python. That would be your workaround, I think. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list