subprocess.call() arguments ignored when using shell=True w/ list

I am trying to get python’s subprocess.call method to accept some args commands through a list (consisting of a sequence of strings) as advised in the python documentation. To explore this behavior before putting it into my actual script, I opened up IPython, ran some commands involving different combinations of shell settings and args commands … Read more

How to implement common bash idioms in Python?

The Essential Linux/Unix commands. All of these are available through the subprocess library. This isn’t always the best first choice for doing all external commands. Look also at shutil for some commands that are separate Linux commands, but you could probably implement directly in your Python scripts. Another huge batch of Linux commands are in the os library; you can do these more simply in Python.