Re: [Tutor] SyntaxError: can't assign to literal while using ""blkid -o export %s | grep 'TYPE' | cut -d"=" -f3" % (fs)" using subprocess module in Python

[Brian J. Oney via Python-list]

On Wed, 2018-11-07 at 10:22 +0100, srinivasan wrote:
> blkid -o export %s | grep \'TYPE\' | cut -d\"=\" -f3

You don't need to escape the single quotes.
Try either:

"blkid -o export %s | grep 'TYPE' | cut -d'=' -f3"
or:
'blkid -o export %s | grep "TYPE" | cut -d"=" -f3'
or:
"blkid -o export %s | grep \"TYPE\" | cut -d\"=\" -f3"

HTH
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