Peter Hansen wrote:
Lingyun Yang wrote:
I want to use python as a "shell like" program,
and execute an external program in it( such as mv, cp, tar, gnuplot)
os.execv("/bin/bash",("/usr/bin/gnuplot",'-c "gnuplot < plot.tmp"'))
I would suggest checking out the "subprocess" module,
new in Python 2.4. It subsumes the functionality
of most of the alternative methods such as execv and
spawn and os.system(), and provides an arguably cleaner
interface.
-Peter
Thank you!
I got the document about subprocess,
http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-subprocess.html
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