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Sun Apr 1 16:57:48 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/086925.html

In article <mailman.986005960.10805.python-list at python.org>, Michael
Hall <py.list at mulga.com.au> writes:

| But this does work:

| os.system('mv /tmp/install.log %s/install.log' %s SYSPRODIR)

[there's a typo, replace he second %s with %]

| Is this the normal/best way to do this in Python ... seems a little
| convoluted me, like there must be a simpler way. Bash for example would be
| happy with something like:

| mv /tmp/install.log $SYSPRODIR/install.log

there's a module for doing string interpolation like this
at <URL:http://www.lfw.org/python/>.

  -- erno

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