passing Python assignment value to shell

[John Gordon]

In <mailman.10422.1401310723.18130.python-list at python.org> Satish Muthali <satish.muthali at gmail.com> writes:

> Now I want to feed the value for 'freecalc_total' as an argument to
> a command executed by the shell.

> For example:

> devnull = open(os.devnull, 'w')
> runCommand = subprocess.call(['stressapptest', '<I want to pass
> the value of freecalc_total here>'], stdout=devnull,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
> devnull.close()

I think you can just include freecalc_total directly as part of the
argument list, like this:

    runCommand = subprocess.call(['stressapptest', freecalc_total], 
        stdout=devnull, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

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