[Tutor] How do I open my browser from within a Python program

[Simon Brunning]

On 9/14/06, nimrodx <nimrodx at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> Basically a dumb question I can't seem to find the answer to.
>
> How do I execute a bash command from within a python program.

Well, this question doesn't match the subject line. So, *two* answers.

To open a web browser from within a python program, you want something like:

import webbrowser
webbrowser.open('www.google.com')

To run a shell command - well, it depends. If you don't care about
reading the output or so on, you can just do:

import os
os.system('ls')

If you want to access the input and/or output streams, or to wait for
the shell command to finish, or anything even remotely complex, look
at the subprocess module.

-- 
Cheers,
Simon B,
simon at brunningonline.net