I was trying to run cmd.exe with argument ls.
I used the below code
import subprocess
subprocess.call(['C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe', 'ls'])
After executing this cmd.exe is opening but not taking ls as input
3 Answers
There are two mistake in your script
lsnot supported in windows usedirinstead/Cparameter needed to run a command
Modified script is
>>> import subprocess
>>> subprocess.call(['C:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe', '/C', 'dir'])
Note: Use \ to escape backslash character
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Shrinivas Patgar
I got the below code from somewhere and tried and is working code subprocess.Popen(['cmd','/K','cd ..'])
If you add argument shell=True, python will use default shell which is available. In this case, python will use Windows cmd. In other word, below code should work:
>>> subprocess.call('dir', shell=True)
Comments
I think , it doesn't work with windows , if you want to use linux syntax in windows you have to use cygwin environment. or change command "ls" to "dir" ("dir /w")
lsis not a recognized command in Windows.lsis not available. Why don't you use theospackage?lswork when you input it into a cmd shell ?