Question

I have mysql dump command that I would like to run from from windows shell
or command prompt. I have used shell it does work.

  d= 'BkSql_'+datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")+".sql"
  fn = dn+d    
  cmd="""mysqldump -u hapopdy -p   > %s""" %fn
  print cmd

Edit:::::::
The -p needs to be a raw input.

Answer 1

Using the subprocess module

import subprocess
subprocess.call(cmd)

If you’re running a shell command add shell=True

subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)