newbie question - executing system commands

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:21:35 +0200, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> pisze:

>> for IMAGE_NAME in `ls`; do {
>> #processing of $IMAGE_NAME
>> };done

You can omit { } here. The body is already delimited by do and done.

>     for image_name in os.popen('ls').readlines():
>         process(image_name)

It's better to use * instead of `ls` in shell
and os.listdir('.') or glob.glob('*') in Python.
So it won't break on filenames containing spaces.

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