Some notes on spawning an external process, assuming you want it to "detach." http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/zope-List/1629207

-----Original Message----- From: J Cameron Cooper [mailto:jccooper@jcameroncooper.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:07 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] calling os.system using external method

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I have an External method that uses os.system to execute a linux command on a local host. I am trying to pass a file name to the findDocs function (see below) to locate the location

(path) of the

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wanted file and print it out on a dtml document. Can someone please show me how to make this work?

Thanks in advanced for any suggestions.

#Python script to find location/path of local file import os unixCommand = 'find /home/uploads/ -name %' def findDocs(arg): os.system(unixCommand%arg)

DTML: <dtml-call "externalMethodName(arg=fileName)">

I suspect you'll want to use one of the commands that allows you to get the results of a system call. Without the Python docs in front of me, I think that's 'os.popen' or similar. Maye you can do it with 'os.system', but I don't do it enough to have memorized it.

Split the results from stdin into elements of a list(by newline, probably), and call it with a list iterator (like dtml-in) to do your rendering. Shouldn't be more that five or six lines.

--jcc

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