How do you run system commands?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Marty Joyce wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how to run system commands (eg: sed, grep....) from
> within a python script file?

The answer to that question is easily answered in the docs, so I'll just
point out the obvious: you don't *need* sed and grep. Python has its
powerful "re" module. It's much better to use that then piping over 
and over.
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