Re: how to run an external program...

2005-12-01 Thread calad . sigilon
ash wrote: > hi, > i want to know is there a way to run/control an external program form > within a python program? > thanks in advance for any Have you tried os.system()? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Syntax

2005-11-26 Thread calad . sigilon
If you use 'from os import *' then you shouldn't preface the commands with os. So, two options: from os import * print "Working Path: %s" % getcwd() OR import os print "Working Path: %s" % os.getcwd() One of these two ways you're not supposed to use for security reasons, but I'm spacing on whi

Re: Python Book

2005-11-13 Thread calad . sigilon
Have you tried the tutorial on python.org? It's pretty good, even for seasoned programmers. Calad Sigilon David Rasmussen wrote: > What is the best book for Python newbies (seasoned programmer in other > languages)? > > /David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python.org offline

2005-11-01 Thread calad . sigilon
Works fine for me, and I check it pretty frequently. Perhaps it's a problem with your ISP's communication with the Python.org ISP? Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Hi all, > > In the past weeks, I often got this message from the python.org > webserver: > > ---