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  Re: call  from pthon  to shell Andrew Robinson <andrew3@r3dsolutions.com> - 2013-02-12 01:00 +0000

#38737 — Re: call from pthon to shell

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On 02/12/2013 05:38 AM, Bqsj Sjbq wrote:
> >>> import os
> >>> os.system("i=3")
> 0
> >>> os.system("echo $i")
>
> 0
>
> why i can not get the value of i?
>
>
First:
os.system is only defined to give the return value (exit code) of the 
sub-process.

However, one way to get the output of shell commands is to use subprocess.

import subprocess
x = subprocess.check_output( [ "echo", "3,5,7" ] )

However, bash built-ins are not executables; nor is shell expansion 
performed; so you will actually need to do something like:
x=subprocess.check_output( [ "bash", "-c", "i=3; echo $i" ] )
 >>> x
 >>> '3\n'

To get the result you're interested in.
There may be better ways to get the result you want.... but hopefully 
you understand the problem better.

:)

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