Redirecting the output from sys.stdout

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 11-Apr-00 Oleg Broytmann wrote:
 >  import os, string
 >  pipe = os.popen("dir /w", 'r') # Open pipe for reading
 >  
 >  lines = []
 >  while 1:
 >     line = pipe.readline()
 >     if not line: break # EOF
 >  
 >     lines.append(line)

Why not the following?

import os, string
pipe = os.popen("dir /w", 'r') # Open pipe for reading
lines = pipe.readlines()

Or even the following to throw away the pipe when you are done with it.

import os, string
lines = os.popen("dir /w", 'r').readlines()

/Mikael

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