newbie question

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, alphaZeta wrote:
> I didn't find any documentation (lib and tut) about how to execute a program
> in a python script.
> Does anybody know ?

   os.system("ls -l")

> For example : I would like to store in a variable the result of a call to
> the system.
> alike : >>> a = sys.exe("ls -l")

   a = os.popen("ls -l", 'r').read()

Oleg.
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