On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 14:25 -0700, suresh wrote: > Hi, > I want to execute the following command line stuff from inside python. > $cd directory > $./executable > > I tried the following but I get errors > import subprocess > subprocess.check_call('cd dir_name;./executable') > > Due to filename path issues, I cannot try this version. > subprocess.check_call('./dir_name/executable') >
You don't want to do this because "cd" is a built-in shell command, and subprocess does not execute within a shell (by default). The proper way to do this is to use the "cwd" keyword argument to subprocess calls, i.e.: >>> subprocess.check_call(('/path/to/exec',), cwd="/path/to/dir") -a -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list