Shell from inside Python

Everything you can do in the shell you can do using Python. The two key modules for doing so are:

os, which is easy import os os.system(“ls -l -a”)

subprocess, which is “best”

  import subprocess
  subprocess.call(["ls"])
  subprocess.call(["ls", "-l"])
  directory_list = subprocess.check_output(["ls", "-l"])
  directory_list = subprocess.os.listdir('.')

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