calling command line programs?

[Yevgeniy (Eugene) Medynskiy]

Hi all,

This is probably a very newbie question, but after searching google and
docs @ python.org I can't find an answer, so maybe someone would be able
to help?

I'd like to call command-line functions from my python script (like you
would in perl using backticks)... Is there a way of doing this? And if
so, how does the environment get treated (I have some variables in my
env that the programs I'd be calling need to see).

Thanks much!
Eugene

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-09-11, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Medynskiy <ym**@cornell.e du> wrote:

This is probably a very newbie question, but after searching
google and docs @ python.org I can't find an answer, so maybe
someone would be able to help?

I'd like to call command-line functions from my python script
(like you would in perl using backticks)... Is there a way of
doing this? And if so, how does the environment get treated (I
have some variables in my env that the programs I'd be calling
need to see).

Take a look at os.popen, os.spawn, or the popen2, and
subprocess modules.

That last one seems to be gaining popularity.

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[Robert Kern]

Yevgeniy (Eugene) Medynskiy wrote:

Hi all,

This is probably a very newbie question, but after searching google and
docs @ python.org I can't find an answer, so maybe someone would be able
to help?

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html

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Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
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[chriss]

Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2005-09-11, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Medynskiy <ym**@cornell.e du> wrote:

This is probably a very newbie question, but after searching
google and docs @ python.org I can't find an answer, so maybe
someone would be able to help?

I'd like to call command-line functions from my python script
(like you would in perl using backticks)... Is there a way of
doing this? And if so, how does the environment get treated (I
have some variables in my env that the programs I'd be calling
need to see).

Take a look at os.popen, os.spawn, or the popen2, and
subprocess modules.

That last one seems to be gaining popularity.

The suggested modules and functions have been deprecated according to the
python 2.4 docs. The doc suggests to use the functions in the 'subprocess'
module.

chriss

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-09-10, chriss <ch****@streiff .org> wrote:

Take a look at os.popen, os.spawn, or the popen2, and
subprocess modules.

That last one seems to be gaining popularity.

The suggested modules and functions have been deprecated according to the
python 2.4 docs. The doc suggests to use the functions in the 'subprocess'
module.

The subprocess module is depricated?

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[chriss]

Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2005-09-10, chriss <ch****@streiff .org> wrote:

Take a look at os.popen, os.spawn, or the popen2, and
subprocess modules.

That last one seems to be gaining popularity.

The suggested modules and functions have been deprecated according to the
python 2.4 docs. The doc suggests to use the functions in the
'subprocess' module.

The subprocess module is depricated?

no, the subrocess module intends to replace modules and functions such as:
os.system
os.spawn*
os.popen*
popen2.*
commands.*

have a look at http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/module-subprocess.html

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:32:32 +0200, chriss <ch****@streiff .org>
declaimed the following in comp.lang.pytho n:

Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2005-09-10, chriss <ch****@streiff .org> wrote:

Take a look at os.popen, os.spawn, or the popen2, and
subprocess modules. <snip>
The suggested modules and functions have been deprecated according to the

<snip>
The subprocess module is depricated?
no, the subrocess module intends to replace modules and functions such as:

I think the nit was that the subprocess module HAD been mentioned in
the same sentence (look above the first <snip>) and was not explicitly
excluded from the other modules in the deprecation statement (second
<snip>).

An immediate parse of the sentences, therefore, would conclude that
subprocess IS also deprecated.
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