On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 08:22:27PM +0100, David MENTRE wrote: > After using Stephane's script as template, I have my Python script to > list all binary packages. I have also some Python code to test if a > file is an OCaml bytecode (match Caml1999X[0-9][0-9][0-9] pattern at the > last 12 bytes of the file). Ok, thanks for this tip. ... let's hope the regexp will be stable in the future :) > With "dpkg -S", I should be able to find the relevant binary packages > that contain a bytecode. Is it possible to do the same as "dpkg -S" from > Python code using, I suppose, python-debian code? Nope, the file database AFAIK is not accessible via python-debian at the moment, nor it is from python-apt. For the sake of performances I suggest you to use apt-file instead of dpkg -S. Thanks for the scripts. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what? zack@{upsilon.cc,cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time
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