On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM, mk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jie wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i'm having trouble executing os.system('source .bashrc') command
>> within python, it always says that source not found and stuff. Any
>> clue?
>>
>
> It _might_ be that the shell it fires up is /bin/sh and this in turn is not
> bash.
>
> Anyway, it's better to use subprocess / Popen for this sort of operation.
>
>
>
"source" is a bash built-in command and not an executable file. That's why
you need to do something like execute "/bin/bash .bashrc".
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