Simple question for all of you python gurus
Jeremy Sanders
jeremy+plusnews at jeremysanders.net
Fri Feb 27 05:23:57 EST 2004
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:14:33 +0000, Cameron Laird wrote:
> os.chdir("/home/%s/.tmda/pending" % userid)
> li = os.popen(...
Wouldn't something like this also work?
li = os.popen('/bin/sh -c "cd /home/%s; /usr/bin/grep -i %s blah"')
This has the advantage that the current directory of the Python program
doesn't change.
Jeremy
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