From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E12A53850431 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:40:14 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org E12A53850431 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=gmail.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=m.gmane-mx.org Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oTUVP-00049y-FG for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 31 Aug 2022 22:40:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=c3=a9_Berber?= Subject: Re: Running cygwin from python Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:40:02 -0500 Message-ID: <7bf1b8fe-a43c-0747-0c18-2ac968f8245a@gmail.com> References: <251df5f2-56b8-0812-c990-a517bd686ec5@cs.umass.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <251df5f2-56b8-0812-c990-a517bd686ec5@cs.umass.edu> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,NICE_REPLY_A,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: Message-ID: <20220831204002.QJ3_WDF2XDNxBSP_NTc8XYU_nVs2Ij03aCpRAWBPZJ8@z> 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. --