Hi,
I am writing an application in Python and there is requirement of calling the external command from the Python program. I spend some time but could not find good example of calling external command.
How to run external command in Python?
Thanks
Hi,
In Python you have to use the sub-process. The subprocess module is very useful and provides many functionality.
I allows the developer to write program which can spawn a new processes and connect with main process with input/output/error pipes.
You can to use the sub process to achieve this.
For example following code:
from subprocess import call call(["ls", "-l"])
Above command calls the external ls -l Linux command. This way you can easily call external program /command from Python main program.
Thanks
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