SiaProgrammingPython

Contents

  1. Interaction with the operating system
    1. Module sys
    2. Module os
  2. Input/Output

Interaction with the operating system

The modules sys and os provide the basic interface to the operating system. The module os creates a portable abstraction layer which is used by high-level modules, like glob, socket, thred, time, fcntl.

Module sys

The module sys provides access to system-specific parameters by the interpreter.

Example argv

   1 #system1.py
   2 import sys
   3 print sys.argv


run system1.py parameter1 parameter2
['system1.py', 'parameter1', 'parameter2']

The script prints the command line arguments that are passed to the script. argv[0] is the script name

A more sophisticated way of evaluating command line arguments is provided by the module optparse

Module os

   1 #!/usr/bin/env python
   2 import os,glob
   3 
   4 filelist=glob.glob('*.pdf')
   5 for f in filelist:
   6     psfilename=f.split('.')[0]+'.ps'
   7     cmd='pdftops '+f+' '+psfilename
   8     print cmd
   9     os.system(cmd)

Input/Output