[Zope] Need to call external programs in a DTML

[Itai Tavor]

Constantin Teodorescu  wrote:

>Need to call some external programs written in Tcl or Java that will
>update some database tables in order to deliver some information
>retrievable by ordinary Z SQL methods.
>
>I presume that I should add some external methods and some simple Python
>scripts that will call my programs.
>Any example of this kind of action?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>--
>Constantin Teodorescu
>FLEX Consulting Braila, ROMANIA

This works for me:

import popen2

o, i, e = popen2.popen3('some_program some_variables')
result = o.read()
error = e.read()

Itai

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