David wrote:
This program generates a report of a Linux System and some important
..conf files. The goal is for users to be able to post their information
and compare with others, ask for help etc. Am I using the subrocess
module too much because I am comfortable with the commands? Should I
just write this type of program in bash. I am trying to get rid of all
the comments generated in the report. I got rid of blank lines and lines
starting with #. But can not figure out how the get rid of a line like;
#This is a comment with 5 spaces
I never programed before so everything is new to me.
Here is my code;
http://asterisklinks.com/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:gentoo_report
The report it generates is at the bottom. I didn't want to post it all
here.
Thanks,
-david
Why are you piping the shell while you ordered the shell to redirect
output to a file, then dumping the pipe?
def uname_report():
p = subprocess.Popen("uname -a >> /root/gentoo_report.txt",
shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
return p.stdout.readlines()
You should choose either one, use the pipe and write to the report file
yourself (more flexibility) or use the shell >> redirection. Also, I'd
rather not use search and replace if I decided to put the report file
somewhere else.
PS: for unix-style program, the report should be outputted to the stdout
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