How to call a shell script from python code?

There are some ways using os.popen() (deprecated) or the whole subprocess module, but this approach

import os
os.system(command)

is one of the easiest.

In case you want to pass some parameters to your shell script, you can use the method shlex.split():

import subprocess
import shlex
subprocess.call(shlex.split('./test.sh param1 param2'))

with test.sh in the same folder:

#!/bin/sh
echo $1
echo $2
exit 0

Outputs:

$ python test.py 
param1
param2

import os
import sys

Assuming test.sh is the shell script that you would want to execute

os.system("sh test.sh")

The subprocess module will help you out.

Blatantly trivial example:

>>> import subprocess
>>> subprocess.call(['sh', './test.sh']) # Thanks @Jim Dennis for suggesting the []
0 
>>>

Where test.sh is a simple shell script and 0 is its return value for this run.

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