Calling a dos batch file from python

[Wesley Brooks]

I looked into this a little while ago so I could get the MAC address
of a machine while on linux or windows. Here's a simplified version
that just does the windows side;

self.macMatch = re.compile(r"((\w\w[:-]){5}\w\w)")
data = os.popen("ipconfig /all", 'r')
text = data.read()
tup = self.macMatch.search(text).span()
mac = text[tup[0]:tup[1]].replace('-',':')
return mac

This method allows you to catch the text which would normally be
output to the dos window.

Cheers,

Wes.

On 05/09/07, n o s p a m p l e a s e <nospam.please at alum.com> wrote:
> On Sep 4, 5:01 pm, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sep 4, 8:42 am, n o s p a m p l e a s e <nospam.ple... at alum.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Suppose I have a batch file called mybatch.bat  and I want to run it
> > > from a python script. How can I call this batch file in python script?
> >
> > > Thanx/NSP
> >
> > The subprocess module should work.
> >
> Thanx to all those who responded. It was quite simple.
>
> import os
> os.system("mybatch.bat")
>
> NSP
>
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