The Python subprocess module allows you to spawn new processes, connect to their input/output/error pipes, and obtain their return codes. Use it to run a shell command or an executable in Python.
The Python subprocess module allows you to spawn new processes, connect to their input/output/error pipes, and obtain their return codes.
If you want to run Python code in a separate process consider multiprocessing instead.
I want to write a function that will execute a shell command and return its output as a string, no matter, is it an error or success message. I just want to get the same result that I would have gotten with the command line.
What would be a code…
I'm using the subprocess module to start a subprocess and connect to its output stream (standard output). I want to be able to execute non-blocking reads on its standard output. Is there a way to make .readline non-blocking or to check if there is…
I'm launching a subprocess with the following command:
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
However, when I try to kill using:
p.terminate()
or
p.kill()
The command keeps running in the background, so I was wondering how…
I'm trying to make a system call in Python and store the output to a string that I can manipulate in the Python program.
#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess
p2 = subprocess.Popen("ntpq -p")
I've tried a few things including some of the suggestions…
I believe that running an external command with a slightly modified environment is a very common case. That's how I tend to do it:
import subprocess, os
my_env = os.environ
my_env["PATH"] = "/usr/sbin:/sbin:" +…
I am calling different processes with the subprocess module. However, I have a question.
In the following code:
callProcess = subprocess.Popen(['ls', '-l'], shell=True)
and
callProcess = subprocess.Popen(['ls', '-l']) # without shell
Both work.…
Here's the Python code to run an arbitrary command returning its stdout data, or raise an exception on non-zero exit codes:
proc = subprocess.Popen(
cmd,
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, # Merge stdout and stderr
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
…
I want to use subprocess.check_output() with ps -A | grep 'process_name'.
I tried various solutions but so far nothing worked. Can someone guide me how to do it?
I'm using eSpeak on Ubuntu and have a Python 2.7 script that prints and speaks a message:
import subprocess
text = 'Hello World.'
print text
subprocess.call(['espeak', text])
eSpeak produces the desired sounds, but clutters the shell with some…
If I do the following:
import subprocess
from cStringIO import StringIO
subprocess.Popen(['grep','f'],stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stdin=StringIO('one\ntwo\nthree\nfour\nfive\nsix\n')).communicate()[0]
I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File…
How can I get the output of a process run using subprocess.call()?
Passing a StringIO.StringIO object to stdout gives this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File…
To launch programs from my Python-scripts, I'm using the following method:
def execute(command):
process = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
output = process.communicate()[0]
exitCode…
My python script uses subprocess to call a linux utility that is very noisy. I want to store all of the output to a log file and show some of it to the user. I thought the following would work, but the output doesn't show up in my application…
I'm using a python script as a driver for a hydrodynamics code. When it comes time to run the simulation, I use subprocess.Popen to run the code, collect the output from stdout and stderr into a subprocess.PIPE --- then I can print (and save to a…
