[Tutor] How to pass a python variable to subprocess.call?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010, Sean Carolan wrote:
>I'm rewriting a bunch of my bash scripts to get some python practice.
>There are some instances where python doesn't have the built-in text
>processing that I need, so I'm using subprocess.call.  How can I pass
>a python variable to these subprocesses?  For example:
>
>mydir = "/usr/local/bin"
>subprocess.call("ls -l /usr/local/bin", shell=True)
>
>How do I replace /usr/local/bin in the subprocess call with the mydir variable?

subprocess.call("ls -l '%s'" % mydir, shell=True)

Bill
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