How do you conver output of "popen('ls')" to a list?

[Trent Mick]

$ ls
bye.txt  hello.txt
$ python
>>> import os
>>> o = os.popen('ls')
>>> lines = o.readlines()
>>> o.close()
>>> lines
['bye.txt\012', 'hello.txt\012']
>>> files = [line.strip() for line in lines]   # strip off EOL characters
>>> files
['bye.txt', 'hello.txt']
>>>


Cheers,
Trent

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