[Tutor] Running external commands from Python

[Luke Paireepinart]

Subprocess module is the preferred strategy when You want to communicate with the command you're running. If not, you can use os.system.

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On Jun 25, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Randy Kao <randykao at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a newbie to Python (switching from Perl) and had a question about the best way to run external commands in Python.
> 
> In doing some reading I'm confused about which is the best way to accomplish this.
> 
> With Perl, the way I went about running commands was by opening a filehandle and parsing / manipulating the data.
> 
> i.e. open(XYZ, "ls -la *");
> 
> In trying to do this in Python, I think I've read a couple ways to do this.
> 
> through: os.popen, os.popen2, os.popen3, os.system, commands.getoutput()
> 
> I might not be understanding when to use which of these correctly and was hoping for some feedback from this more experienced group.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
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