Yes, I highly recommend the subprocess module. subprocess.call() can
do almost anything you want to do, and the options are all pretty
intuitive Whenever I need to write quick scripts for myself, it's what
I use.
THN
Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Donald Duck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm a little bit confused about what is the best way to run a shell command,
> > if I want to run a command like
> >
> > xxxxxx -a -b > yyyyyy
> >
> > where I'm not interested in the output, I only want to make sure that the
> > command was executed OK. How should I invoke this (in a Unix/linux
> > environment)?
>
> The most straight-forward way would be:
>
> import os
> status = os.system ("xxxxxx -a -b > yyyyyy")
> if status == 0:
> print "it worked"
> else:
> print "it failed"
>
> You might also want to look at the new (in 2.4) subprocess module.
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