On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 21:37 -0800, Earl wrote: >Screen scrape <grin> got me on that one... > >Now why would I want to go be all original when I can >just beg for help then > >- print "%-40.40s %-22.22s %-16.16s" % (na, ver, repo) >+ print "%s %s %s" % (na, ver, repo) > >and get what I need? :) > sounds like you got what you want. though I'd suggest you look at what you're doing and see if it's more worth your while to write your script in python and just import the yum module. What are you doing anyway? -sv