Passing data to system command

[Chris Hieronymus]

Hi,

I have a bunch of x-y data contained in an array.  I would like to  
plot the data using an
external program (psxy in GMT).  The plotting program takes x-y  
couples as standard
input.  How do I get the data into the system call?  I used to do  
things in csh and awk,
i.e., something like

awk '{<some manipulations here>; print $1, $2}' filename | psxy <some  
options> >! output.ps

The reason I'm trying to use python is because the manipulations are  
getting too cumbersome
in awk.  Now I have all the manipulations done in python, but I'm  
missing that last step.

I've tried various things with os.system, popen, and subprocess, but  
so far without success.
Does anyone know how to do this?

chris


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Christoph  
Hieronymus                                                     
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