Escape quote in python os.system("command")

Question

I want to run the following command via os.system(command)

echo '@include("acf/rows.php")' >>  ../functions.php

I can't seem to get the escaping of quotes right. How do I do this?

`os.system('echo \'@include(\"acf/rows.php\")\' >> ../functions.php')`? — iz_, Jan 20 '19 at 19:04
Please provide us with your code so that we can reproduce your error. — Jordan Singer, Jan 20 '19 at 19:05
Why not append to the file using Python file functions instead of this double indirect method…?! — deceze, Jan 20 '19 at 19:05
@Bazingaa I meant to put that string into into `os.system`. See my edit. — iz_, Jan 20 '19 at 19:07
@deceze even better! Changed my code to append it, very new to Python. Thanks so much :) — Lennart Bank, Jan 20 '19 at 19:14
The question is tagged as Python, so I assume you are calling this from Python. That implies putting the whole string into another pair of quotes. Show your Python code, so that we can see what you did wrong. — zvone, Jan 20 '19 at 22:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 20 '19 at 19:11

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os.system('echo \'@include(\"acf/rows.php\")\' >> ../functions.php')

Works great thanks to @Tomothy32

Even better:

with open("../functions.php", "a") as functions:
        functions.write("@import('acf/rows.php');")

Thanks to @deceze

answered Jan 20 '19 at 19:11

Lennart Bank

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