I'm trying to run sh-script from python file
my_script.sh
#!/usr/bin/python
rm category.xml
python file
import subprocess
subprocess.call(["../my_script.sh"])
And I get
File "../my_scrypt.sh", line 3
rm category.xml
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
How to fix this?
You used a shebang line of #!/usr/bin/python on a file that isn't Python. Change the shebang line.
Better yet, don't call out to shell scripts when you can call Python functions to do the same thing:
import os
os.remove("category.xml")
#!/usr/bin/python rm category.xml
Look at your shell code. You using python interpreter #!/usr/bin/python and feeding it with bash commands rm category.xml.
Fixed shell script:
#!/bin/bash
rm category.xml
#!/bin/sh
rm is just for testing. sh does not support many useful features of bash, but it is portable. As for me, i've never faced any problems with bash on the modern linux systems and only benefit from advanced syntax.if you're using python 2x
use commands module:
import commands
print commands.getoutput('sh my_script.sh')
if using python 3x
use subprocess module:
import subprocess
print(subprocess.getoutput('sh my_script.sh'))
subprocess has been available since Python 2.4, and commands was deprecated in Python 2.6 (honestly, I'd never heard of it until now).Try this,
my_script.sh
#!/usr/bin/sh
rm category.xml
Trivial approach:
>>> import subprocess
>>> subprocess.call(['./my_script.sh'])
>>>