Brant Sears wrote:
> Hi. I'm new to Python and I am trying to use it on Windows XP. I am trying to
> use it to replicate the same thing that I do on
> Linux and Mac via shell scripting (Batch files aren't powerful enough, so
> I've decided to try to use Python.)
>
> What I want to do is execute a program and have the results of the execution
> assigned to a variable. According to the
> documentation the way to do this is as follows:
>
> import commands
> x = commands.getstatusoutput('dir')
>
> This should assign "x" to be the output of the command "dir". However, when I
> run this (or any other command), x ends up
> being:
>
> (1, "'{' is not recognized as an internal or external command,\noperable
> program or batch file.")
>
>>From looking through the documentation, I'm believing that the implementation
>>of commands.getstatusoutput is actually some
>>multi-step thing that starts with issuing the bracket character that is being
>>choked on. This leads me to believe that Python
>>or perhaps just the commands module is not setup correctly on my computer.
>
> I installed Python using the Python2-5.msi link that I found at:
> http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/
>
> I left everything the default during installation, so Python was installed to
> C:\Python25. The only other thing I did was add
> this PATH variable on my computer.
>
> Any ideas on what I might do to troubleshoot this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brant Sears
The commands module doesn't work on Windows. You could try using
os.popen, or maybe the subprocess module.
Roger
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