os.system is a python standard library function. It executes the given string argument as a command in a subshell.
Questions tagged [os.system]
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Run CMD command in python script in ANOTHER Shell
I am running a pogram "xxx" in the windows cmd shell.
With a python script I want to check whether this specific process "xxx" is frozen or not.
If so, it should reopen the process with
os.system(r'xxx.bat')
but then the python script does no check…
Mabignix
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Errors Launching GUI Launcher pycharm. "_tkinter.TclError: cannot use geometry manager pack inside . which already has slaves managed by grid"
I am a new member of dealing with python, try to create a GUI launcher with facing some issues.
Would you have a look to my script and correct me.
my script as follow:
import os
from tkinter import *
import tkinter.messagebox
root =…
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python os.system got my long command trim into two lines
import os
cmd =str("./xtool -l ./temp_files/"+file1+ " -t "+line+" -json -o "+result_file)
os.system(cmd)
Im trying to run this command with python but the code got trimmed because of long files names
so it read up to "+line+" and any things else…
Yahya Al Hattali
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Best method to run multiple python scripts sequentially from a single file and show print statememts from each?
Exec, execfile, os.system, subprocess, funtion (if name == main)...
What is the best method, and why, to run multiple python files sequentially as well as possibly multiple times (in a loop) through a single "master" script while also showing status…
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Passing multiple commands to os.system
I'm working on a function that generates a random file and then prints it; currently I have the following code :
import os
import random
def randomfile(path):
files = os.listdir(path)
index = random.randrange(0,…
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Is there a way to test the results of an os.system() command in Python?
This is not an exact copy of my code, but it's the only idea I have regarding going about this:
import os
import re
while True:
com = input()
if com == "break":#Doesn't matter
break
run = os.system(com)
if run == "'" + com…
user18209545
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Change the value of an order
I'm trying to change the value of a command on each run.
For this I tried a prototype like this:
import os
import random
from random import random
class testShutDown :
ticks = random.randint(10,100)
os.system("shutdown /s /t…
LikAnda
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How to open a program in a script and keep running the script?
I've been trying to use os.system to open Xampp automatically and then run my script made with tkinter. But the problem is that the script stops until I close manually the subprocess.
Here an example.
import os
direccion =…
Guerra09
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OS Python : Open an External Excel File
I need to open an excel file with os. I know it's pretty easy as;
import os
os.system("start EXCEL.EXE file.xlsx")
However, name of my file varies depending on my py file.
I defined a variable called "fileopenerfullname" and it is the name of the…
Eren RT
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I'm having trouble marking (") in python [os.system]
This is the script
from tkinter import *
import os
window = Tk()
window.title("Download from Web")
window.geometry("300x120+200+100")
photo = PhotoImage(file = "icon/icon.png")
window.iconphoto(False, photo)
urltxt = Label(window, text =…
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How to end the running of python script that started SSMS?
I have the following code to run SSMS from python script (because I want it to run automatically before I get to work):
import os
run_line = ' '.join(['ssms.exe', '-S', server_name, '-U', user_name, '-P', my_password])
os.system('cmd /c ' +…
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Store output of gunzip/tar -t in Python
I try to store output of command : gunzip -t / tar -t in Python but I dont know how. Indeed, in shell termianl I have no problem to ctch result with echo $? but in Python it's impossible with os.popen() or os.system().
My current script is below…
Alexandre Solane
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Execute npm Script in a different Folder with python
Can someone tell me how I can do "npm run start" in any folder using a Python script. But please with the "os" operator and not "subprocess".
EDIT:
I need a python script, that goes to a specific folder and then executes
"npm run start". How can I…
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Python wait until the os.system end
I need to run an external script (is not possible modify this) in order to manag a CLOB data and insert in table.
But if I use the os.system in a loop, only 1 record is inserted in the table, if I add a time.sleep(20) between call, all works fine.
I…
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how to do string formatting in python for this specific example
pair = ['BTC/USD', 'ETH/BTC', 'ETH/USD']
time_from = 20200101
time_to = 20200120
considering the above list and variables
I want to execute the following cmd using os module.
cmd = ("freqtrade download-data -d /home/datarepo -p 'BTC/USD' 'ETH/BTC'…
ANK
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