communication with a shell program programatically

[martoro]

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out how to communicate with a shell program which expects some input from stdin from within a program, preferably a python program. To further explain, I'd like to run the program using

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os.system(cmd)

in my python script and then instead of feeding the input to the cmd program from stdin, I'd like to be able to feed the input from within my script.

Thanks in advance!

[ajdlinux]

Use os.popen, e.g.

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shellscript = os.popen("shellscript.sh")
shellscript.write("Data")
shellscript.write("Blah blah blah")
shellscript.close()

[martoro]

Thanks ajdlinux,

How can i read data from the shellscript object? I couldn't find some decent explanation of os.popen.

Thanks

[ajdlinux]

Like you do with any other file:

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x = shellscript.read()
# do something with x here