Hugo, That looks like it will work great.
Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: Hugo González Monteverde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ertl, John Subject: Re: [Tutor] Popen? or something else You may use the 'commands' module, if your subprocess should return right away, then you can use: ## import commands mystring = commands.getoutput("dtg") ## then mystring should have "2004122212" (and possibly '\n', but you'll have to check that out, not sure about your command)in it... Hope it helps, it sure is quicker than popen (I only use popen if I need to keep reading the output, for a one-time capture, I personally prefer the "commands" module...) Hugo Ertl, John wrote: > Roger, > > I have been doing it the Pythonic way (that is why I have no idea about how > Popen works) but I need to make sure (the systems guys called me on it) I > use the same dtg as everyone else...it is possible (has not happened yet in > 20 years) it could be set to something else. > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor