In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Donn Cave wrote:
> You can replace "mv" with os.rename() if you don't
> care that it will fail when the destination is on a different
> filesystem. Etc.
If you care than use `shutil.move()` instead.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (also note that most trivial shell commands are better done in
> python. most uses of cat, for example, can be trivially emulated
> with one or two lines of python...)
Though the knowledge required to do this may be mo
use subprocess module
from subprocess import call
call(['cmd', 'arg1', 'arg2'], stdin='...', stdout='...')
eg:
call(['ls', '-l'])
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fileexit wrote:
> How can I execute shell commands from within python. Specifically, I
> am looking for something like the shell "cat". But this also made me
> wonder how to execute shell commands anyway, just if i needed to do
> that in the future.
>
You can use os.system() for that.
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"fileexit" wrote:
> thanks... i was to hasty to post this question, i found a good answer
> here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ffdab847125f81b6
that's an old thread, and Python has grown a few more ways to
deal with shell commands since then. if os.syste
How can I execute shell commands from within python. Specifically, I
am looking for something like the shell "cat". But this also made me
wonder how to execute shell commands anyway, just if i needed to do
that in the future.
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thanks... i was to hasty to post this question, i found a good answer
here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ffdab847125f81b6
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On 15 Feb 2006 23:21:09 -0800, fileexit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I execute shell commands from within python. Specifically, I
> am looking for something like the shell "cat". But this also made me
> wonder how to execute shell commands anyway, just if i needed to do
> that in the futu
