[Tutor] Regular expressions...

[Spencer Parker]

Well...it gives me the entire path...I am not running this script from the
actual directory...I am running it from a secure user directory that only
has certain access rights.  During the os.path.dirname gives me the entire
directory path...I just need to last part of it is all. out of
'/xen/domains2/machinename/disk.img all I need is 'machinename'

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:

> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Spencer Parker <inthefridge at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I need to use a regular expression to get a couple of items for my python
> > script.  So far the script is running an 'ls' command to get a few items
> > that I need
> >
> > I run an 'ls -sk /xen/domains2/machinename/disk.img'
> >
> > Output
> >
> > 2454112 /xen/domains2/machinename/disk.img
>
> Look at os.path.getsize(). You don't need to use ls to get this
> information.
>
> > What I need to get is just the size numbers using regular expressions.
>
> You could just use str.split() but getsize() is better.
>
> > I also need to get the 'machinename'
> > portion of the path as well to stick into the database.
>
> Don't you already know this? Where does the ls command come from?
> Anyway look at os.path.split() and os.path.dirname().
>
> Kent
>



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Spencer Parker
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