ls command in pythn code example

Example: how to use the ls -l command in python

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE  def listdir_shell(path, *lsargs):     p = Popen(('ls', path) + lsargs, shell=False, stdout=PIPE, close_fds=True)     return [path.rstrip('\n') for path in p.stdout.readlines()]  dirlist = listdir_shell('/var/log', '-t')[:10]  from pprint import pprint pprint(dirlist)