Programmers in the current era like to work using IDEs because it is more user friendly. But there are reasonable number of programmers who still use command line for programming. Their favourite editor might be Vim. Vim is easy to use, light-weight and comes with almost every Unix distribution. Unlike IDEs, it does not hang […]
Executing bash commands via Python 3
In python, executing bash commands can be done using subprocess module. It’s pretty easy to use and it’s a powerful module. For simple commands, we can use subprocess.call Usage: Eg: total 4 -rw-rw-r– 1 tevin tevin 15 Sep 3 15:29 test.txt You can also use subprocess.check_call and subprocess.check_output Popen: For more flexibility, you can use […]