Run an external program from Python?

[Joakim Hove]

Hello,

I am writing a small python program to automate the compilation of
another (fortran) program. In this process I need my python program to
call the "make" program.

In Perl I would do simply:

  system("make PROG=Run");

And the Perl program would wait around till the system call was
finished.

Is there an equivalent system call in Python. [I have checked the
exec* familiy of commands, but they only seem to run python code -
which is not what I want in this case.]

Best regards, 


Joakim Hove

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