Shell Commands in Python Code

[Paul Watson]

"Sara Khalatbari" <sarapythonlist at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.144.1115481338.29826.python-list at python.org...
> There are a lot of commands that I need to use in my
> code & I don't know how to do it
>
> Is there a way to use shell commands in Python code?

Yes, there are many popen() forms that you may wish to investigate.  Below 
is a brief clip.  However, if you can find the functionality already built 
into Python, such as globbing filenames, that would be better.  It will be 
more portable to more systems and probably faster.

x = os.popen("ls -al")
for aline in x.readlines():
    print aline,