python call external program

[Andreas Cardeneo]

Ben Thomas wrote:
> 
> very simple question:
> 
> What would I do to have Python execute something from the DOS command
> line. I am very new to python but I bet it is in a moudule but don't
> know the command or the modules to look in. I want to
> 
> dir >%myvar.txt
> 
> #this code would run dir from the command line and pass the var "myvar"
> , dir would dump a listing of the files into a text file called xxxx.txt
> 
> pointers?
> 
> Ben

Hi Ben,

you should use the system() function from the "os" module.

os.system("dir *.txt") shows all files in the current directory matchin
*.txt.
The function returns the exit code.

Bye,
Andreas

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