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Utmost noob question (i think)

Hello nice people :)

I am doing this code that reads excel sheets(useless piece of info), and from that data it should run a command in the command prompt, (i am using a program that has a command line capability),

so to get to what i want, i want to run this command, inside the python code, how wld i be able to do that??

thanks a lot people
Mar 4 '08 #1
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Hello hello

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  1. import os
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  3. os.system("dir")
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here's example sending dir command to command prompt :)
Mar 5 '08 #2
Hello hello

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  1. import os
  2.  
  3. os.system("dir")
  4.  
here's example sending dir command to command prompt :)

thanks a lot mate :)
Mar 8 '08 #3

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