Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2005-09-11, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Medynskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is probably a very newbie question, but after searching >> google and docs @ python.org I can't find an answer, so maybe >> someone would be able to help? >> >> I'd like to call command-line functions from my python script >> (like you would in perl using backticks)... Is there a way of >> doing this? And if so, how does the environment get treated (I >> have some variables in my env that the programs I'd be calling >> need to see). > > Take a look at os.popen, os.spawn, or the popen2, and > subprocess modules. > > That last one seems to be gaining popularity. >
The suggested modules and functions have been deprecated according to the python 2.4 docs. The doc suggests to use the functions in the 'subprocess' module. chriss -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
