The commands Module
(Unix only) The commands
module contains a few convenience functions
designed to make it easier to execute external commands under Unix. Example 3-7 demonstrates this module.
Example 3-7. Using the commands Module
File: commands-example-1.py import commands stat, output = commands.getstatusoutput("ls -lR") print "status", "=>", stat print "output", "=>", len(output), "bytes"status => 0
output => 171046 bytes
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