gowtham
gowtham

Reputation: 27

Python for controlling Application from CLI

I have an application, which allows both by GUI and CLI. Is there any option to make use of this CLI commands using python, so that i can automate the set of process for that application(i.e. replace the set of work with single click)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 53

Answers (1)

Ozzy Walsh
Ozzy Walsh

Reputation: 887

Use subprocess

from subprocess import check_output

# check_output returns the output of the command
# note: date is a unix command, try something else if on windows
result = check_output('date', encoding='utf8')

print(result)

Upvotes: 1

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