Running command lines within your Python script

Question

So I have a bunch of aliases and Command Line prompt programs, and my main program works by inputting b into the cmd.exe, followed by some filepath names and what not. How would I run those arguments in my python script? So that it mimics the action i am doing in the cmd?

Answer 1

You should use the subprocess module. In particular, subprocess.call will run command line programs for you.

Answer 2

You can do this using subprocess

For example, this call bellow gets the output of the program and stores it as a string, using .call will help with calling it and for more accurate control use .Popen

subprocess.check_output(["ipconfig"])

Answer 3

Check out Sarge - a wrapper for subprocess which aims to make life easier for anyone who needs to interact with external applications from their Python code. and Plumbum - a small yet feature-rich library for shell script-like programs in Python.

Answer 4

or you can use

import os
os.system('your_command')

for example:

import os
os.system('notepad')

will launch the notepad with the command line behind.

hope this helps