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

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 4, 2005, at 6:17 PM, Bill MacKenzie wrote:

> 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.

Python 2.3 on OS X definitely has everything that you say it doesn't.  
What is this "modules list" you're referring to?

-bob