Difference between subprocess.Popen and os.system

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If you check out the subprocess section of the Python docs, you’ll notice there is an example of how to replace os.system() with subprocess.Popen():

sts = os.system("mycmd" + " myarg")

…does the same thing as…

sts = Popen("mycmd" + " myarg", shell=True).wait()

The “improved” code looks more complicated, but it’s better because once you know subprocess.Popen(), you don’t need anything else. subprocess.Popen() replaces several other tools (os.system() is just one of those) that were scattered throughout three other Python modules.

If it helps, think of subprocess.Popen() as a very flexible os.system().

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