How do i execute shellscripts from python?

[Michael Hudson]

Jocke B <jyx at telia.com> writes:

> I've been looking at the net for this, but didn't find anything.
> Lets say i've made a bash-script that does some calculations, and then
> prints out a string. I want to execute this script from my pythoncode
> and then use the string that the bash script returned.
> Is it possible to do that?

I think you want the "commands" module.

Cheers,
M.

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