Running cygwin from python

Running cygwin from python

[Toyoshima Denis]

Hi there, how are you?

I’d like to know if there’s any possibility of running simple commands inside Cygwin through Python code.
If yes, could you provide some examples?

Thanks in advance!

BR,

Denis

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Running cygwin from python

[Toyoshima Denis]

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Hi there, how are you?

I’d like to know if there’s any possibility of running simple commands inside Cygwin through Python code.
If yes, could you provide some examples?

Thanks in advance!

BR,

Denis

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Re: Running cygwin from python

[Eliot Moss]

On 8/31/2022 1:41 PM, Toyoshima Denis wrote:
> Hi there, how are you?
> 
> I’d like to know if there’s any possibility of running simple commands inside Cygwin through Python code.
> If yes, could you provide some examples?

This will happen automatically if you use Cygwin's python.
If you don't, then you have to run a program (for example, ls)
by giving the path to the executable - on my system that is:

C:\cygwin64\bin\ls.exe

Any argument will need to be in a form that the Cygwin program
expects.  For example. to ls my Cygwin home directory, I could
do:

C:\cygwin64\bin\ls.exe /home/moss

I could also do:

C:\cygwin64\bin\ls.exe /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/home/moss


You could also go through two steps, using the cygpath program to
convert paths to the desired form for a Cygwin program to obtain
a Cygwin form name to pass to a Cygwin program.

HTH - Eliot Moss

Re: Running cygwin from python

[René Berber]

On 8/31/2022 1:39 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:

> On 8/31/2022 1:41 PM, Toyoshima Denis wrote:
>> Hi there, how are you?
>>
>> I’d like to know if there’s any possibility of running simple commands 
>> inside Cygwin through Python code.
-----------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>> If yes, could you provide some examples?
> 
> This will happen automatically if you use Cygwin's python.
> If you don't, then you have to run a program (for example, ls)
> by giving the path to the executable - on my system that is:
> 
> C:\cygwin64\bin\ls.exe
[snip]

I think he meant something like this:

$ python
Python 3.9.10 (main, Jan 20 2022, 21:37:52)
[GCC 11.2.0] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import os
 >>> os.system("ls")
... output is a list of strings with the contents of current directory
^D

Which is not a question for the Cygwin list, its elementary python.
-- 

Re: Running cygwin from python

[René Berber]

On 8/31/2022 1:39 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:

> On 8/31/2022 1:41 PM, Toyoshima Denis wrote:
>> Hi there, how are you?
>>
>> I’d like to know if there’s any possibility of running simple commands 
>> inside Cygwin through Python code.
-----------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>> If yes, could you provide some examples?
> 
> This will happen automatically if you use Cygwin's python.
> If you don't, then you have to run a program (for example, ls)
> by giving the path to the executable - on my system that is:
> 
> C:\cygwin64\bin\ls.exe
[snip]

I think he meant something like this:

$ python
Python 3.9.10 (main, Jan 20 2022, 21:37:52)
[GCC 11.2.0] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import os
 >>> os.system("ls")
... output is a list of strings with the contents of current directory
^D

Which is not a question for the Cygwin list, its elementary python.
-- 

Re: Running cygwin from python

[Eliot Moss]

On 8/31/2022 4:40 PM, René Berber wrote:
> On 8/31/2022 1:39 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> 
>> On 8/31/2022 1:41 PM, Toyoshima Denis wrote:
>>> Hi there, how are you?
>>>
>>> I’d like to know if there’s any possibility of running simple commands inside Cygwin through 
>>> Python code.
> -----------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>>> If yes, could you provide some examples?
>>
>> This will happen automatically if you use Cygwin's python.
>> If you don't, then you have to run a program (for example, ls)
>> by giving the path to the executable - on my system that is:
>>
>> C:\cygwin64\bin\ls.exe
> [snip]
> 
> I think he meant something like this:
> 
> $ python
> Python 3.9.10 (main, Jan 20 2022, 21:37:52)
> [GCC 11.2.0] on cygwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import os
>  >>> os.system("ls")
> ... output is a list of strings with the contents of current directory
> ^D
> 
> Which is not a question for the Cygwin list, its elementary python.

... except if the OP is talking ab *Windows* python, in which case the
os package will run Windows things, not cygwin ones ...

Best - Eliot