Linux shell to python

[Dan Stromberg]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Barry Scott <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:

> lspci gets all its information from the files in /sys/bus/pci/devices.
>


> You can use os.listdir() to list all the files in the folder and then open
> the files you want to get the data you need.
>
Gee, wouldn't it be more portable to parse lspci?  I wouldn't put it past
the (Linux) kernel devs to move the pseudo-filesystems around again...


> And of course you can write list comprehensions on as many lines as
> it take to make the code maintainable.
>
Sigh, and I'm also not keen on multi-line list comprehensions, specifically
because I think they tend to make less readable code.  It also becomes a
mess when you need to insert print statements to get some visibility into
what's going on.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20120730/bdc03ab5/attachment.html>