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copied!<p>Look at the <a href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html" rel="noreferrer">subprocess module</a> in the standard library:</p> <pre><code>from subprocess import call call(["ls", "-l"]) </code></pre> <p>The advantage of <strong>subprocess</strong> vs. <strong>system</strong> is that it is more flexible (you can get the stdout, stderr, the "real" status code, better error handling, etc...).</p> <p>The <a href="https://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.system" rel="noreferrer">official documentation</a> recommends the <strong>subprocess</strong> module over the alternative os.system():</p> <blockquote> <p>The <strong>subprocess</strong> module provides more powerful facilities for spawning new processes and retrieving their results; using that module is preferable to using this function [<a href="https://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.system" rel="noreferrer"><code>os.system()</code></a>].</p> </blockquote> <p>The "<a href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#replacing-older-functions-with-the-subprocess-module" rel="noreferrer">Replacing Older Functions with the subprocess Module</a>" section in the <strong>subprocess</strong> documentation may have some helpful recipes.</p> <p>Official documentation on the <strong>subprocess</strong> module:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#module-subprocess" rel="noreferrer">Python 2 - subprocess</a></li> <li><a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#module-subprocess" rel="noreferrer">Python 3 - subprocess</a></li> </ul>

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