running programs from within python

[M.N.A.Smadi]

this is the full error


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./plugin.py", line 60, in ?
    main()
  File "./plugin.py", line 40, in main
    os.system("/root/tmp/bibutils_3.14/isi2xml " + isi_file + " > 
tmp_isi_xml.xml")
NameError: global name 'os' is not defined

smadi

Steven Bethard wrote:

> M.N.A.Smadi wrote:
>
>> am getting an error in the script as follows:
>>
>> NameError: global name 'os' is not defined
>>
>> however i dont get the same error when running from the python CLI. 
>> (and yes i am importing the os module)
>
>
> Can you give the full exception message (i.e. copy-paste it from the 
> output)?
>
> STeVe