How to execute a shell command in Python 2.7?

Question

Please help to achieve output of shell in python

Answer 1

You can hook up stdin and stdout of processes together in python using Popen but it's usually easiest to let shell shell do the work, for example you can:

subprocess.check_output('ls | grep something', shell=True)

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