Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
Spinning off from another thread, when is it appropriate to use os.system() to issue commands like rm -rf, cd, make, xterm, ls ?
Considering there are analog versions of the above commands (except make and xterm), I’m assuming it’s safer to use these built-in python commands instead of using os.system()
Any thoughts? I’d love to hear them.
Rule of thumb: if there’s a built-in Python function to achieve this functionality use this function. Why? It makes your code portable across different systems, more secure and probably faster as there will be no need to spawn an additional process.