calling command line programs?

[chriss]

Grant Edwards wrote:

> On 2005-09-11, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Medynskiy <ym66 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
>> This is probably a very newbie question, but after searching
>> google and docs @ python.org I can't find an answer, so maybe
>> someone would be able to help?
>>
>> I'd like to call command-line functions from my python script
>> (like you would in perl using backticks)... Is there a way of
>> doing this? And if so, how does the environment get treated (I
>> have some variables in my env that the programs I'd be calling
>> need to see).
> 
> Take a look at os.popen, os.spawn, or the popen2, and
> subprocess modules.
> 
> That last one seems to be gaining popularity.
> 

The suggested modules and functions have been deprecated according to the
python 2.4 docs. The doc suggests to use the functions in the 'subprocess'
module.

chriss