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Subject: Re: [newbie] problem with if then
From: Albert Dengg <albert@fsfe.org>
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:37:09 +0200
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Jean Dubois <jeandubois314@gmail.com> wrote:
...
>     checkavailablestring='wget -q -O -
>http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/videozone/programmas/journaal/EP_'+thisday.strftime("%y%m%d")+'_JO7
>>/dev/null ; echo $?'
The problem schould be the echo:
Since os.system returns the exit code of the shell, when chaining commands with ; it returns the exit status of the last command,in your case the echo.
So,if you really want to go with wget here,
Either drop the echo or chain with &&

Yours
Albert
Hi,
While i agree that calling wget here is not optimal....