Newbie: issuing shell commands with mod_python

[Martin Franklin]

On Wednesday 03 Apr 2002 1:32 pm, neil wrote:
> import os
> def main(req):
>     child = os.popen("/usr/bin/htpasswd -cb /usr/local/apache/users/myfile
> name1 passwd1")
>     data = child.read()
>     err = child.close()
>     return data


Try this from a python shell:-

[$ python
Python 2.0 (#11, Nov  6 2000, 09:01:06)
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> def main(req):
...     child = os.popen("/usr/bin/htpasswd -cb   BLAHBLAH martin martin1")
...     data = child.read()
...     err = child.close()
...     return data
...
>>> main('foo')
Adding password for user martin
''


Cheers
Martin