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newbie: strange python problem

Robin Munn rmunn at pobox.com
Mon Apr 14 16:41:41 EDT 2003 
maxx <nospam at somedomain.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:57:04 -0400, Peter Hansen wrote:
> 
>> Check the output of "ls -la /" manually... the first line does
>> *not* have more than two items in it...  if you were to change
>> the first line above to this, it would work, though I suspect
>> there is another option to "ls" which would also suppress
>> that extra output.
>> 
>>> for line in os.popen('ls -la /').readlines()[1:]:
>> 
>> -Peter
> 
> Right! A simple mistake, but those are the ones you make taking your
> first steps in a new programming language.

In addition to this, you may have problems if any filenames had spaces
in them. See Skip Montanaro's reply to your post for a better solution
that would properly handle spaces in filenames.

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