call from pthon to shell
Jason Friedman
jsf80238 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 17 02:00:23 EST 2013
>>>> import os
>>>> os.system("i=3")
> 0
>>>> os.system("echo $i")
>
> 0
>
> why i can not get the value of i?
Each call to os.system starts a new shell. Think about what would
happen if you opened a terminal and typed:
$ i=3
Then, close that terminal and open a new one. You would not be surprised that
$ echo $i
returns nothing.
And, as mentioned by Andrew, even absent that problem os.system is not
the way to obtain the data you are looking for.
I realize this is now 5 days after you posted ... what were you
ultimately attempting to accomplish?
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