Running External Programs in Python with subprocess [Examples]
This article will show you how to use the Python subprocess module to run external programs and scripts from Python. It is often necessary to call external applications from Python. Usually these are command-line applications which you can use to perform tasks outside of the Python environment, like manipulating files, or interacting with third party services. For example, you might call the wget command to retrieve a remote file. Any application which is accessible on the command line is available to subprocess, and can be executed from within Python. You … Read more
