Running into problems with os.popen
Stephen Boulet
stephen.boulet at motorola.com
Thu Mar 20 08:02:06 EST 2003
Jp Calderone wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:44:41PM -0600, Stephen Boulet wrote:
>
>>I was using a structure like:
>>
>>[snip - usage of os.popen]
>>
>>but then my string is truncated. Anyone know what's going on?
>>
>
>
> Not a clue. Maybe it has to do with the particulars of what "command" is.
> In the absense of any specific answer, here's a general one: try
> commands.getoutput()
>
> Jp
The command is:
pth = os.path.join(curDir,self.fileName)
command = 'hdp dumpsds -c "%s"' % pth
It dumps the contents of an hdf file into a big text file, so it just returns
a lot of text.
-- Stephen
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