open a shell prompt froma python program

[gaurav kashyap]

Dear all,

Can u tell me a python program that when executed in a shell
prompt,opens another shell prompt.

Simply i want to open a shell prompt from a python program.

Thanks

[Lars Stavholm]

gaurav kashyap wrote:

Dear all,

Can u tell me a python program that when executed in a shell
prompt,opens another shell prompt.

Simply i want to open a shell prompt from a python program.

I think you're looking for:

import os
os.system("/bin/sh")

[gaurav kashyap]

On Oct 30, 2:59*pm, Lars Stavholm <[e-mail]:

gaurav kashyap wrote:

Dear all,

Can u tell me a python program that when executed in a shell
prompt,opens another shell prompt.

Simply i want to open a shell prompt from a python program.

I think you're looking for:

import os
os.system("/bin/sh")

Dear,

Its not opening a new window,
I want to do that only from already opened shell prompt window

[Diez B. Roggisch]

gaurav kashyap wrote:

On Oct 30, 2:59Â*pm, Lars Stavholm <[e-mail]:

>gaurav kashyap wrote:

Dear all,

Can u tell me a python program that when executed in a shell
prompt,opens another shell prompt.

Simply i want to open a shell prompt from a python program.

I think you're looking for:

import os
os.system("/bin/sh")

Dear,

Its not opening a new window,
I want to do that only from already opened shell prompt window

Then you need to open a terminal, like xterm or konsole. Use
os.system("/usr/bin/konsole")

Diez

[gaurav kashyap]

HI,
I am getting the following error:

konsole: cannot connect to X server

do i need to install the related files.

[bernhard.voigt]

On Oct 30, 11:53*am, gaurav kashyap <[e-mail]:

HI,
I am getting the following error:

konsole: cannot connect to X server

do i need to install the related files.

Do you have an x-server running? I assume so, because you have a
terminal window opened.

If you became root using su, you need to allow connections to x-
server, which is started by the regular user. you can do this for
local access using
$ xhost local:

Best wishes! Bernhard

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:53:52AM -0700, gaurav kashyap wrote:

HI,
I am getting the following error:

konsole: cannot connect to X server

do i need to install the related files.

Maybe, but given that error message, probably not.

You would do yourself a great favor by providing a lot more detail
about what you are trying to do... On a Unix/Linux system, unlike
Windows, there is no one single "shell prompt window" -- there are
lots of them. They all need the X Window System (a suite of software
which provides a GUI interface to Unix systems -- it's not "built in"
like it is in Windows). X works as a client-server model, and you
need to make sure X authentication is handled properly. Depending on
what you are doing, this can be either very easy, or very complicated.

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[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-10-30, Derek Martin <co**@pizzashack.orgwrote:

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:53:52AM -0700, gaurav kashyap wrote:

>HI,
I am getting the following error:

konsole: cannot connect to X server

do i need to install the related files.

Maybe, but given that error message, probably not.

You would do yourself a great favor by providing a lot more detail
about what you are trying to do... On a Unix/Linux system, unlike
Windows, there is no one single "shell prompt window" -- there are
lots of them.

There are both lots of "shell prompt windows" (which, I assume
means terminal emulators), and lots of shells and other
programs you can run in such a window.

They all need the X Window System (a suite of software which
provides a GUI interface to Unix systems -- it's not "built
in" like it is in Windows). X works as a client-server model,
and you need to make sure X authentication is handled
properly. Depending on what you are doing, this can be either
very easy, or very complicated.

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at his ZIPCODE ... And he has
visi.com "VISA"!!

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:47:48AM -0700, gaurav kashyap wrote:

Simply i want to open a shell prompt from a python program.

If this is literally true, then you just need to figure out what
command will open a terminal window from the shell prompt. Once you
figure that out, it's as simple as:

cmd = "whatever your shell command is"
os.system(cmd)

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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message
<8a**********************************@c2g2000pra.g ooglegroups.com>, gaurav
kashyap wrote:

konsole: cannot connect to X server

Could be it's not being passed the right DISPLAY setting. Is this under the
same username, so it's automatically using the right xauth settings?