hi.

i'm new to Python ...

i would like to extract the number of JPG files
from the current directory and use that number
as a parameter in my python script.
i tried:
 a = os.system('ls *JPG | wc -l')
when i do:
 print a
i get '0'.

what am i missing?

marc

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