Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
1/20/2008 10:36:00 PM
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-01-16, Lutz Horn <lutz.horn@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:29:08 -0800 (PST), jitender001001@gmail.com
>> said:
>>> var = "/home/anonymous"
>>> os.system("echo $var)
>>
>> os.system("echo %s" % var)
>
> Though one wonders why one would do that instead of simply doing
>
> print var
Only reason I can think of is to learn how to use os.system before doing
something larger. But the OP should be using subprocess or popen in most
cases anyway ...
Tim Delaney