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PyGTK advice and returning data

jackofnotrades · 2009-04-02 09:02:08

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…

02-04-2009 10:02AM

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jackofnotrades

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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 02-04-2009 04:58PM
slavigo

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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 04-04-2009 10:21PM

jackofnotrades

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

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