Executing a shell command

Pierre Fortin pfortin at pfortin.com
Sat Jun 2 10:02:42 EDT 2001


Kevin Riggle wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to take a command in a string in Python, execute it in the
> shell, and read the output into a variable of some sort, like
> 
> result = execute(cmdline)

result = os.popen(cmdline).read()

Pierre



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