On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Kevin Riggle wrote: > Is there any way to take a command in a string in Python, execute it in the > shell, and read the output into a variable of some sort, like pipe = os.popen(command, 'r') data = pipe.read() pipe.close() Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd at phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.