How to start a command line command from Python [duplicate]
With subprocess one can conveniently perform command-line commands and retrieve the output or whether an error occurred:
import subprocessdef external_command(cmd): process = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(' '), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) # wait for the process to terminate out, err = process.communicate() errcode = process.returncode return errcode, out, errExample:
print external_command('ls -l')It should be no problem to rearrange the return values.