On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Sean Carolan <scaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm rewriting a bunch of my bash scripts to get some python practice.
> There are some instances where python doesn't have the built-in text
> processing that I need, so I'm using subprocess.call. How can I pass
> a python variable to these subprocesses? For example:
>
> mydir = "/usr/local/bin"
> subprocess.call("ls -l /usr/local/bin", shell=True)
>
> subprocess.call("ls -l "+mydir,shell=True)
will do the job. In python, we can simply concatenate the strings like that.
How do I replace /usr/local/bin in the subprocess call with the mydir
> variable?
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