Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'example:': 0.03; 'subject:How': 0.09; 'python': 0.09; 'eof': 0.09; 'subject:command': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.10; 'sfxlen:2': 0.10; 'subject:python': 0.11; 'echo': 0.16; 'subject:run': 0.16; 'shell': 0.18; 'all,': 0.21; 'cc:2**0': 0.23; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'command': 0.24; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'lines': 0.28; 'run': 0.28; 'multiline': 0.29; 'code': 0.31; 'file': 0.32; 'to:addr:tutor': 0.33; 'received:74.125.82': 0.33; 'received:google.com': 0.34; 'skip:* 20': 0.35; 'received:192.168.0': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'message-id:@gmail.com': 0.36; 'received:74.125': 0.36; 'execute': 0.37; 'several': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'received:192.168': 0.40; 'within': 0.64; 'making': 0.64; 'directly.': 0.78 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=i0bRUddHBBRgElUEaAeyP960bRjNJPA1KdtNHvdmITI=; b=ZC5hjJb7UIZAJzkFeVcvaCh+LGjkh5/kLf4kOm2EEhL03aloTsR9tgachKTLzy+nTu AqT2kFFyakD5qEX1PI5Y46l0ssMuqBlaVGVDH4UJB+UKGb3o8LbC/l9YjaQJezywN3ra O0YO9gSc5DkekqUffzQWuPBS4pkFlFV4X679FngKW3Rnc7gaywdcb2FC3cEE7/ZlEVwl aez7o947Zky2lnxyBILZhHEK6e83xN11sAp9H/0iym88sjos/y8OOzmjuSQAAp+GxlJr zRseUznRGz0Y5Ut/MFtNS4N2t/rh1LlwtoMFaVGqLrmp8Hf+xxrYebx0kMkgHYCYkoeu +mpA== X-Received: by 10.194.77.13 with SMTP id o13mr112442965wjw.58.1357797687464; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:01:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:01:24 +0100 From: Karim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tutor@python.org Subject: How to run multiline shell command within python References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1357797689 news.xs4all.nl 6922 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:57710 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:36564 Hello all, I want to run multiline shell command within python without using a command file but directly execute several lines of shell. I already use *subprocess.checkoutput("csh -f my_file.csh".split())* but I want to know if it is posssible to avoid making file and execute shell lines of code directly. Example: cat< myfile echo "foo" echo "bar" ... EOF Regards Karim