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calculate percentage from variables
ok, it is working now.. #!/usr/bin/python import os files = float(os.popen('ls ../files/ | wc -l').read().split()[0]) matches = float(os.popen('wc -l ../text/burn.roto_02').read().split()[0]) percent_matches=float(1.0*files/matches)*100 print percent_matches -
calculate percentage from variables
that does work, thanks. i'm having another problem now, trying to get the right values from my os.system commands. they just return the 0 value instead of the actual numbers from the shell script. i'm looking at 'popen' and 'argv' to see if these will help in grabbing the stdout from those... -
calculate percentage from variables
This is a pretty basic script, just wanting to grab some values from commandline and insert them into variables take those and calculate percentage. import os files = os.system('ls ../files/ | wc -l') matches = os.system('wc -l ../text/burn.roto_02 | awk \'{print $1}\'')...
