Hi all, I'm a newbie to Python (switching from Perl) and had a question about the best way to run external commands in Python.
In doing some reading I'm confused about which is the best way to accomplish this. With Perl, the way I went about running commands was by opening a filehandle and parsing / manipulating the data. i.e. open(XYZ, "ls -la *"); In trying to do this in Python, I think I've read a couple ways to do this. through: os.popen, os.popen2, os.popen3, os.system, commands.getoutput() I might not be understanding when to use which of these correctly and was hoping for some feedback from this more experienced group. Thanks in advance!
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