[Tutor] Add newline's, wrap, a long string

[Martin Walsh]

David wrote:
> I am getting information from .txt files and posting them in fields on a
> web site. I need to break up single strings so they are around 80
> characters then a new line because when I enter the info to the form on
> the website it has fields and it errors out with such a long string.
> 
> here is a sample of the code;
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import subprocess
> import os
> 
> u_e = subprocess.Popen(
> 'grep USE /tmp/comprookie2000/emerge_info.txt |head -n1|cut -d\\"-f2',

Did you copy and paste this faithfully? The 'cut -d\\"-f2' looks a bit
odd. Is the delimiter a " (double-quote)? Perhaps you left out a space
before the -f2?

> shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,)
> os.waitpid(u_e.pid, 0)

'u_e.wait()' would wait the way you intend, as well, I believe.

> USE = u_e.stdout.read().strip()

Or, if you use the communicate() method of the Popen object, the wait is
implicit. As in,

stdout, stderr = u_e.communicate()

... or perhaps ...

USE = u_e.communicate()[0].strip()

... but, you don't need to use subprocess at all. How about (untested),

# grep USE /tmp/comprookie2000/emerge_info.txt |head -n1|cut -d\" -f2
infof = open('/tmp/comprookie2000/emerge_info.txt')
for line in infof:
    if 'USE' in line:
        USE = line.split('"')[1]
        break
else:
    USE = ''
infof.close()

> L = len(USE)
> print L
> print USE
> 
> L returns 1337

cosmic :)

HTH,
Marty