[Tutor] Running shell command

[Brett Wilkins]

Just as a side point, wouldn't the easiest way be to run the script  
under sudo?
It's safer imho than putting the sudo password in programmatically...

Cheers
--Brett

On 30/05/2008, at 7:21 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:

> "Ricardo Dueñas Parada" <rduenasp at gmail.com> wrote
>
>> When I run the command os.system in python, obviously he asks me  
>> for the
>> password, and the program stops until I wirte it. . Is there any  
>> way to
>> write the password from the python script?, or what do you  
>> recommend me?
>
> os.system is a very basic way of running a program.
>
> You should use the newer subprocess module and the Popen() class.
> There are examples in the documentation.
>
> Also, basic usage is described in my Using the OS topic in my  
> tutorial.
>
> -- 
> Alan Gauld
> Author of the Learn to Program web site
> http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
>
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