[Tutor] os.sys

[James]

Try using the commands, instead.


import commands
cmd = 'ls'
opt = commands.getoutput( cmd )
print opt


More information found here:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-commands.html

:)
.james


On Oct 28, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Lawrence Shafer wrote:

> Why doesn't this fill otp with the output of ls?? (I know python has
> it's own file tools, I'm just playing around ;)
>
> import os
> cmd="""ls"""
> otp=os.system(cmd)
> print otp
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