newbie: strange python problem

[Peter Hansen]

maxx wrote:
> 
> Simple code (I think):
> for line in os.popen('ls -la /').readlines():
>     direntry = line.split()
>     print direntry
>     print direntry[0]
>     print direntry[1]
>     print direntry[2]
> ---
> 
> No list-items with an index above 1 are printed. They produce a
> 'IndexError: list index out of range' error... which is strange, because
> the list 'direntry' is 9 items large, so listitems up to index 8 should be
> printed... right?

Check the output of "ls -la /" manually... the first line does
*not* have more than two items in it...  if you were to change
the first line above to this, it would work, though I suspect
there is another option to "ls" which would also suppress
that extra output.

> for line in os.popen('ls -la /').readlines()[1:]:

-Peter