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PyGTK advice and returning data

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  • 02-04-2009 10:02am
    #1
    jackofnotrades
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭


    Hi Guys,

    I'm writing a pygtk program. At the minute it has one button and when you click the button the program executes

    os.system("/home/jack/somscript.sh")

    Lets say all I had in that script was an "ls" command, how do I get the list of directories back into my program.

    Also I'm wondering whats the best GUI designer for this stuff there appears to be a few choices ? I'm using Ubuntu by the way.

    Thanks for any help on this in advance.
    Regards,
    Jack


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    #2
    slavigo
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭slavigo


    Hey,
    If you have a look at
    os.popen instead of os.system
    a = os.popen('/home/jack/somscript.sh')
print a.read()

    Hope it's what your looking for.
    Dave.


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    #3
    jackofnotrades
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭jackofnotrades


    that looks like good stuff I'm gona try it out thanks


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