How to pass the shell in Python

Jia Hu hujia06 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 13:28:41 EDT 2010


sub = subprocess.Popen("shell command", shell=True)

If you have to wait the shell finishes its commands and then continue the
next Python code. You can add another line:
 sub.wait()

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:57 AM, S.Selvam <s.selvamsiva at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Ranjith Kumar <ranjithtenz at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi Folks,
>>      Can anyone tell me how to run shell commands using python script.
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> For simple work, i generally use os.system call.
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