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Re: Only getting the first 6 lines

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On Friday  2 Oct 2015 09:37 CEST, Peter Otten wrote:

> Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>
>> I want to get the first 6 lines of ps output. For this I use:
>> ========================================================================
>> from subprocess import check_output
>>
>> ps_command = ('ps', '-eo',
>> 'user,pid,pcpu,pmem,stat,start,time,cmd', '--sort') message =
>> '\n'.join(check_output(ps_command +
>> ('-%cpu',)).decode("utf-8").splitlines()[0:6])
>> ========================================================================
>>
>> It works, but does not look very efficient. Is there a better way
>> to do this?
>
> Efficiency be damned, readability counts ;)

The second is more important as the first, but if you can have both …
:-)

I already made a function for it. See my other response.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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Only getting the first 6 lines Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-10-01 23:58 +0200
  Re: Only getting the first 6 lines Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-10-01 16:58 -0600
  Re: Only getting the first 6 lines Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-10-02 08:50 +1000
    Re: Only getting the first 6 lines Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-10-02 13:08 +0200
  Re: Only getting the first 6 lines Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-10-02 09:37 +0200
    Re: Only getting the first 6 lines Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-10-02 13:11 +0200

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