[mod_python] mod_python and os.system and os.popen

My bad.. I also tried that in my various versions
of the code. Same result. 

On Fri Feb 22 18:39 , argriffi  sent:

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>Martha Zimet wrote:
>> I am attempting to call os.system and os.popen from within
>> a mod_python script and nothing happens. That is, the commands
>> perform no action. I am attempting to use os.system and os.popen
>> to execute wget, and I wonder if there any tricks that I am not
>> aware of. I have been googling and didn't find anything useful. 
>> Any assistance would be appreciated. 
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>> Here is some code where 'update' is called from an HTML form. 
>> I have tried both os.system and os.popen with the same result.
>> I read about Popen, rather than os.popen, but that does not 
>> seem to exist in my implementation.
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>> Thanks in advance.
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>> Regards,
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>> /martha
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>> from mod_python import apache
>> import cgi
>> import pg
>> from cgi import escape
>> from urllib import unquote
>> import sys
>> import os
>>
>> def update(req):
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>>     # The getfirst() method returns the value of the first field
>>     # with the name passed as the method argument
>>     host = req.form.getfirst('host', '')
>>     user = req.form.getfirst('user', '')
>>     password = req.form.getfirst('password', '')    
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>>     # Escape the user input to avoid script injection attacks
>>     host = cgi.escape(host)
>>     user = cgi.escape(user)
>>     password = cgi.escape(password)
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>>     try:
>>         output = ''
>>         command = "wget --user %s --password %s
>> http://%s/svn/backend/able1.0/db/db.sql" % (user, password, host)
>>         req.write(command)
>>         req.write('\n')
>>         ouput = os.popen(command).read
>>         req.write(output)
>>         req.write('\n')        
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>>     except Exception, e:
>>         r = sys.exc_info()
>>         generator = (str(x) for x in r)
>>         newstring = ''.join(generator)
>>         req.write(newstring)
>>         req.write('\n')
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