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    copied!<p>I understand this question has been asked before but the methods adviced don't work for me. This is what I want to do from my Django view:</p> <pre><code>sudo python mypythonscript.py arg1 arg2 &gt; mypythonscript.log </code></pre> <p>If I execute this from command line it works like a charm but can't get it to work through django views. I have tried using os.system(command) and subprocess.call(command, shell=True) but they don't work. Thanks in advance.</p> <p>EDIT: This is my views.py:</p> <pre><code>from django.http import HttpResponse import datetime import subprocess def li_view(request): if request.is_ajax(): if request.method == 'GET': message = "This is an XHR GET request" elif request.method == 'POST': message = "This is an XHR POST request" print request.POST else: message = "No XHR" num_instances = request.POST['num_instances'] ami_id = "ami-ff02058b" command = "sudo python /home/bitnami/launch_instances.py 1 " + num_instances + " " + ami_id + " &gt; /home/bitnami/launcinstances.log" subprocess.call(commad, shell=True) return HttpResponse("something creative will go here later") </code></pre> <p>The whole story is that I have a form on my website and I want to pass the contents of that form as arguements to my launch_instances.py script. When I press the submit button in my form it posts to /luanch_instances/ which 'redirects' to this view. Executing the code as it is will do nothing, it'll simply just show me "something creating will go here later" on a new page. If I was to how ever use</p> <pre><code>suprocess.check_call(command, shell=True) </code></pre> <p>This is what I get:</p> <pre><code>Command 'sudo python /home/bitnami/launch_instances.py 1 ami-ff02058b &gt; /home/bitnami/launchinstances.log' returned non-zero exit status 2 </code></pre>
 

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