open("ls -l |", "r") ??

[Neil Schemenauer]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +0000, steveFarris wrote:
> Hi all, is some variation of  the above possible in Python?

Look at os.popen().  You probably be using the directory methods
in os rather than forking two processes to get this data.

  Neil