That's a great tip I'll have to save than. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 9:38 AM To: Nathan McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] how to get response from os.system()
Hi Nathan, Nathan McBride wrote: > Yup I use the pexpect module for a lot however couldn't get 'pexpect.run' to > work with mysqldump piping to gzip > Just to hazard a guess -- when you want to pipe commands with pexpect you have to spawn ('run', it seems, would work the same way) the shell command as an argument to bash (or similar) since pexpect does not natively interpret shell operators or wildcards, like redirect, pipe, etc.. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor