Re: call shell from python

2013-02-12 Thread spilcm
On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:13:38 AM UTC+1, contro opinion wrote: > >>> import os > >>> os.system("i=3") > 0 > >>> os.system("echo $i") > > > 0 > how can i get the value of  i? You may want to take a look at the pexcpect module : http://www.noah.org/wiki/pexpect -- http://mail.python.org/m

Re: call shell from python

2013-02-11 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:13 PM, contro opinion wrote: import os os.system("i=3") > 0 os.system("echo $i") > > 0 > how can i get the value of i? Your example is too heavily contrived for me to give a much more specific/useful answer than "use the `subprocess` module": http://docs.