Sorry for replying to myself, but I also have a follow-up question.
On Nov 19, 1:40 pm, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I do the same thing when I am in Sage, using the following
> variables?
Meanwhile I learned that os.system can do those things.
Next question: I also need to know the contents of the archive. Using
tar in Linux:
tar -tzf file.tar.gz
which lists the archived file names.
When I do
sage: os.system('tar -tzf file.tar.gz')
then the list of file names appears on the screen, but it is not
returned as a string.
Is there a direct way to get the list of file names into Sage? I only
know the following clumsy work-around:
sage: os.system('tar -tzf file.tar.gz > tmpfile')
sage: f = file('tmpfile','r')
sage: L = f.read().split('\n')
> Moreover, it should be platform independent.
This still is a concern for me. Would the above be acceptable for the
Windows/VMWare or OS X versions of Sage, or what else should I do?
Cheers,
Simon
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