How to Access Unix Shell

[Paul Watson]

"Neale" <nhirsh2 at ieee.org> wrote in message
news:2d7af4f8.0406140615.310f1875 at posting.google.com...
> > > > [[snip]]
> > > How about :
> > > ===
> > > files = os.listdir(".")
> > > ===
> > >
> > > Bye.
> > > --
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka at zoran.com>
> >
> > Well, I could claim that I knew about listdir but was simply answering
the
> > original question which was how to run arbitrary shell commands.
> >
> > But in fact I knew nothing of listdir (all of my coding so far has been
with
> > wx(Python|Widgets) so I rarely use the python system stuff) , so I thank
you
> > for the education :-).
> >
> > Pax.
> Thank you for such high quality help.
>
> If there are other Unix command functions like listdir, where/how do I
> find them? Is there a particular directory in Python, maybe?

You could look at all of the items in the os module.  The module directory
at http://docs.python.org/modindex.html might also be good material.

Python 2.3.4 (#53, May 25 2004, 21:17:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> dir(os)
['F_OK', 'O_APPEND', 'O_BINARY', 'O_CREAT', 'O_EXCL', 'O_NOINHERIT',
'O_RANDOM', 'O_RDONLY', 'O_RDWR', 'O_SEQUENTIAL', '
O_SHORT_LIVED', 'O_TEMPORARY', 'O_TEXT', 'O_TRUNC', 'O_WRONLY', 'P_DETACH',
'P_NOWAIT', 'P_NOWAITO', 'P_OVERLAY', 'P_WAI
T', 'R_OK', 'TMP_MAX', 'UserDict', 'W_OK', 'X_OK', '_Environ', '__all__',
'__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name
__', '_copy_reg', '_execvpe', '_exists', '_exit', '_get_exports_list',
'_make_stat_result', '_make_statvfs_result', '_pi
ckle_stat_result', '_pickle_statvfs_result', 'abort', 'access', 'altsep',
'chdir', 'chmod', 'close', 'curdir', 'defpath'
, 'dup', 'dup2', 'environ', 'error', 'execl', 'execle', 'execlp', 'execlpe',
'execv', 'execve', 'execvp', 'execvpe', 'ex
tsep', 'fdopen', 'fstat', 'fsync', 'getcwd', 'getcwdu', 'getenv', 'getpid',
'isatty', 'linesep', 'listdir', 'lseek', 'ls
tat', 'makedirs', 'mkdir', 'name', 'open', 'pardir', 'path', 'pathsep',
'pipe', 'popen', 'popen2', 'popen3', 'popen4', '
putenv', 'read', 'remove', 'removedirs', 'rename', 'renames', 'rmdir',
'sep', 'spawnl', 'spawnle', 'spawnv', 'spawnve',
'startfile', 'stat', 'stat_float_times', 'stat_result', 'statvfs_result',
'strerror', 'sys', 'system', 'tempnam', 'times
', 'tmpfile', 'tmpnam', 'umask', 'unlink', 'unsetenv', 'utime', 'waitpid',
'walk', 'write']
>>> print os.listdir.__doc__
listdir(path) -> list_of_strings

Return a list containing the names of the entries in the directory.

        path: path of directory to list

The list is in arbitrary order.  It does not include the special
entries '.' and '..' even if they are present in the directory.