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Asked: 2026-05-30T03:30:57+00:00

I’ll preface this by saying it’s a homework assignment. I don’t want code written

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I’ll preface this by saying it’s a homework assignment. I don’t want code written out for me, just to be pointed in the right direction.

We’re able to work on a project of our choice so I’m working on a program to be a mini portfolio of everything I’ve written so far. So I’m going to make a program that the user will input the name of a program (chosen from a given list) and then run the chosen program within the existing shell.

However, I can’t really find information on how to call upon external programs. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I considered putting all the code in one long program with a bunch of if loops to execute the right code, but I’d like to make it a BIT more complicated than that.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to call each as a Python script, you can do

    import subprocess
subprocess.call(["python", "myscript.py"])
subprocess.call(["python", "myscript2.py"])

    But a better way is to call functions you’ve written in other scripts, like this:

    import myscript
import myscript2

myscript.function_from_script1()
myscript2.function_from_script2()

    Where function_from_script1() etc are defined in the myscript.py and myscript2.py files. See this page on modules for more information.

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