running pg_dump from python - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Garry Saddington
Subject running pg_dump from python
Date
Msg-id 4A355860.1010102@schoolteachers.co.uk
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I ahve the following python file that I am running as an external method
in Zope.

def backup():
    import  os
    os.popen("c:/scholarpack/postgres/bin/pg_dump scholarpack  >
c:/scholarpack/ancillary/scholarpack.sql")
    data=open('c:/scholarpack/ancillary/scholarpack.sql','r')
    r=data.read()
    data.close
    return r

However, when I run this script it creates the file scholarpack.sql but
the file is empty.
Any help much appreciated.
Regards
Garry

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