"amfr" wrote: > Hoe would I call something on the command line from python, e.g. "ls > -la"?
os.system(cmd), or some relative: http://docs.python.org/lib/os-process.html http://docs.python.org/lib/os-newstreams.html#os-newstreams or http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html ::: also note that you shouldn't use external commands for trivial things like getting a list of files or getting the size of a file; you can get a list of all files in a directory with files = os.listdir(directory) for file in files: file = os.path.join(directory, file) # full path ... or files = glob.glob(pattern) for file in files: ... and you can get information about a given file with st = os.stat(file) size = st.st_size mtime = st.st_mtime (etc) or size = os.path.getsize(file) mtime = os.path.getmtime(file) (etc) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list