[Tutor] Single Backslash (was 'DOS Commands?')

James.Rocks@equant.com James.Rocks@equant.com
Mon Nov 11 09:18:03 2002


Hi Magnus,

Hi James!

> There's a tiny bug left. Hope it'll work once that's
> fixed.

> >      popen(sDOSCommand, 'w').readlines()
> This should be
>        popen(sDOSCommand).readlines()

> Just skip the 'w'. You *read* from the file descriptor,
> right? So why do you open it with 'w'?

Excellent! Thanks alot Magnus, it works excellently now :-)

I still want to migrate it into python completely (using the ftplib module)
which I assume will make the code more platform independent.

I really appreciate your help :-)

James C. Rocks
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