Calling an external command in Python : execute shell command

Question

How can I call an external command (as if I'd typed it at the Unix shell or Windows command prompt) from within a Python script?

Answer 1

For calling an external command in Python you should look at the subprocess module in the standard library see the code below:-

import subprocess 

subprocess.run(["ls", "-l"])

To know more about this you can have a look at the following video tutorial:-