The commands module
(Unix only). This function contains a few convenience functions, designed to make it easier to execute external commands under Unix.
Example: 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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