[Tutor] Correct way to call an outside program?

[Allen Fowler]

Thank you for the help.  :)

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simplest way to run external commands ! 

import os 
cmd="/usr/bin/ssh 10.0.0.20 uptime"
os.popen(cmd)

my cmd is just an example, use any cmd you want & its output will be displayed to you.
hope this helps

[SNIP]



subprocess.Popen().communicate() will do it:

In [1]: import subprocess
In [7]: x=subprocess.Popen('ls', stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
In [10]: print x[0]
....

If you just want stdout and stderr of the subprocess to go to stdout and
stderr of the calling process you can omit those arguments to Popen().






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