Run a linux program through python

Andreas Jung andreas at andreas-jung.com
Fri Jun 20 03:51:51 EDT 2003


Inside an ExternalMethod:

import os
os.system('your_program')

Check the mailinglist archive. This question has been answered a dozen of 
times.

-aj

--On Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 9:29 Uhr +0200 Gunnar Staff 
<gunnaran at stud.math.ntnu.no> wrote:

> I would like ti run a linux program through a
> python script. Do enyone know the syntax for
> running a OS program from python?
>
> Assume I'll run
> $ convert fromfile tofile
>
> Gunnar
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