unexpected token `;'

[Peter Otten]

bbarbero at inescporto.pt wrote:

> I am struggling with a script in python for a while now, and decided
> to look for some help. I am running a code that takes commands from
> Marsyas(open source for Music analysis).

> cmd = "sfplay " + colist[2]
> print cmd
> fileout = commands.getoutput(cmd)

You have to ensure here that characters that have a special meaning for the 
shell are escaped correctly. The best approach is probably to use subprocess 
instead of commands:

fileoutput = subprocess.Popen(["sfplay", colist[2]],
    stdout=subprocess.PIPE, 
    stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).communicate()[0]                                                        

Peter