[Tutor] Linux variable to Python

[Max Noel]

On May 13, 2005, at 21:03, Alberto Troiano wrote:

>>>> os.system("fec=cam`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.jpg")
>>>>
> 0
>
>>>> os.system("echo $fec")
>>>>
> 0
>
>>>> os.system("mv hola.txt grabacion/$fec")
>>>>
> 0
>
> Then I check for the file and turns out that it moved hola.txt to  
> grabacion
> with the same name
> I think that for some extrange way it is not accepting the linux  
> variable
>

     No, it's just that the os.system() function returns the return  
value of the executed process (that is, 0 if everything went okay).  
For what you want to do, one of the os.popen* functions is what  
you're looking for.

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