hello everyone :-), I am a newbie to python. I am trying to run a bash script from within a python program. I would greatly appreciate any pointers/comments about how to get around the problem I am facing.
I want to run bash script: code.sh from within a python program. code.sh needs to be run like so from the command line [code] $ sudo code.sh arg1 arg2 [/code] I read up on some documentation but am not very clear about how to use popen. I want to relegate the shell to a background process, but it needs to accept the sudo passwd too! I have tried [code] p = subprocess.Popen(['/bin/bash', 'sudo '+mypath+'code.sh '+arg1+' '+arg2], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) [/code] I tried some code from stackoverflow.com/questions/694000/why-doesnt- subprocess-popen-always-return nothing really happens when this executes, the PIPE option pshes it to the background and I can't push in the sudo passwd. Can someone please give me an idea of how to go about this. To recap, I want to run a shell script, which needs to be started with sudo, and then push it into the background. Thanks, -A -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list