python output for shell command?

[Unewbeginner]

How could I make the output of a python program as a command? For example, my python program print:

cd /home/chris/Books/2010

and then Ubuntu shell execute the command above. Thanks!!

[sisco311]

$(command)

See:

man bash | less +/"Command Substitution"

[Unewbeginner]

Sorry, when I add the code below in my python program, it doesn't work as I thought:

print "$ cd /home/chirs/book/2010"

anything I did wrong?

[Unewbeginner]

Sorry, when I add the code below in my python program, it doesn't work as I thought:

print "$ cd /home/chirs/book/2010"

anything I did wrong?

[Unewbeginner]

help please ......

[sisco311]

Oh, you want something like:

import os

cmd='ls -al /home'
os.system(cmd)

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/stdl...stem-interface

[AngusH]

Sorry, when I add the code below in my python program, it doesn't work as I thought:

print "$ cd /home/chirs/book/2010"

anything I did wrong?

Listen to sisco311, that's what you want, but also you don't want to be using that $ symbol. The shell shows it as an indicator of your privelidge level and the kind of input it wants, it's not a part of the command.
Angus