Why use backticks?

[Warnes, Gregory R]

There is a patch on sourceforge to make the commands module work on
MS-Windows systems:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=713428&group_id=547
0&atid=305470

-Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Watson [mailto:pwatson at redlinec.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:16 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Why use backticks?
> 
> 
> Yes, but the commands module appears to be UNIX only.
> 
> "Jeff Epler" <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1052357472.17747.python-list at python.org...
> > On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 05:16:38PM -0500, Paul Watson wrote:
> > > Backticks in Python do not mean the same thing as they do 
> in Perl.  Your
> > > Perl friend would need to do something like:
> >
> > .. or they could use the commands module.
> > >>> commands.getoutput("uname -a")
> > 'Linux parrot 2.4.20-9 #1 Wed Apr 2 13:42:50 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386
> > GNU/Linux'
> >
> > I notice this even has the last-newline-stripping feature 
> of Perl's ``.
> > (I also don't see how to turn this off, in case the 
> program's output is
> > binary...)
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> 
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