Uninstalling OpenJDK through shell using subprocess

Question

I am writing python script to uninstall openjdk.

uninstall_java1=["sudo" ,"apt-get" ,"remove" ,"openjdk*","y"]
subprocess.Popen(uninstall_java1)

This code is exiting at line:

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Abort.

How can I pass "y" to this script as it is aborting automatically? Thanks.

Answer 1

For your specific case, you can supply the -y/--yes flag to apt-get to automatically answer yes to all its questions:

uninstall_java1 = ["sudo", "apt-get", "remove", "-y", "openjdk*"]

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For the more general case of communicating with a subprocess.Popen, check the question How do I pass a string into subprocess.Popen (using the stdin argument)? which recommends using Popen.communicate.