[Pythonmac-SIG] system, popen, tarfile on OS X

[Bill MacKenzie]

Hi,

I'm preparing a script which will launch an external program (a JAR),  
process the XML file that results, tar the files output from the 
processed XML, and FTP the tarball to a remote location.

The middle and the end are just fine, but running the external program 
and tarring the results have me hung up.

I see system, popen and tarfile  available in the modules list, but not 
on the Mac version.

I need to be able to give the external (JAR) command line arguments 
based on the system clock.

I could adapt a Perl script that currently does this task, but where 
would be the fun in that?

I'm running OS X.3.7 and Python 2.3.

Thanks for your help.

Bill

Bill MacKenzie
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Antelope Valley Press
bill.mackenzie at avpress.com