Running an outside program (executable) in Python?

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If using Python 2.7 or higher (especially prior to Python 3.5) you can use the following:

import subprocess
  • subprocess.call(args, *, stdin=None, stdout=None, stderr=None, shell=False)
    Runs the command described by args. Waits for command to complete, then returns the returncode attribute.
  • subprocess.check_call(args, *, stdin=None, stdout=None, stderr=None, shell=False)
    Runs command with arguments. Waits for command to complete. If the return code was zero then returns, otherwise raises CalledProcessError. The CalledProcessError object will have the return code in the returncode attribute

Example: subprocess.check_call([r"C:\pathToYourProgram\yourProgram.exe", "your", "arguments", "comma", "separated"])

In regular Python strings, the \U character combination signals a
extended Unicode code point escape.

Here is the link to the documentation: http://docs.python.org/3.2/library/subprocess.html

For Python 3.5+ you can now use run() in many cases: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.run

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