Simple question for all of you python gurus

Cameron Laird claird at lairds.com
Thu Feb 26 18:14:33 EST 2004


In article <NYu%b.12366$qL1.145 at fed1read02>,
Sean Berry <sean_berry at cox.net> wrote:
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>so I tried to do something like this
>os.system("cd /home/%s/.tmda/pending" %userid)
>li = os.popen("/usr/bin/grep -i %s" %phase)
>lis = lis.readlines()
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>But since cd is a shell command, it does not seem to work either.
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>How can I do this?
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  import os

  os.chdir("/home/%s/.tmda/pending" % userid)
  li = os.popen(...
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Cameron Laird <claird at phaseit.net>
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