[Tutor] Newbie Question Again.

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 09:26:37PM -0500, SA wrote:
| Hi Everyone-
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|     I'm running Python on Mac OSX. (bsd based system) How do I call a
| program from outside Python to be run from within my Python script/ In ot=
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| words if I have an executable file, say "someprogram", how would I execute
| this program from within a python script.

There are various ways depending on what you want to do with it.  In
the simplest case, this works :

import os
os.system( "command" )

-D

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