how to call shell?
Albert Hopkins
marduk at letterboxes.org
Tue Feb 12 06:18:24 EST 2013
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013, at 12:12 AM, contro opinion wrote:
> >>> import os
> >>> os.system("i=3")
> 0
> >>> os.system("echo $i")
>
> 0
> >>>
> why i can't get the value of i ?
Whenever you call os.system, a new shell is created and the command is
run, system() then waits for the command to complete.
You don't see i because your two system() calls are in two different
processes:
python> import os
python> os.system('echo $$')
24294
0
python> os.system('echo $$')
24295
0
However, ths (e.g.) would work:
python> os.system('i=3; echo $i')
3
0
HTH,
-a
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