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Subprocess pkg

Subprocess pkg

Last updated 3512 days ago by Rahul Agarwal

Subprocess is one of simplest way of running linux command from within python code

Example:

if you want to run fastqc for QC of fastq file:

from subprocess import Popen,PIPE,call

p=Popen(["fastqc","-f","fastq","-o", "/home/name/result/","/dev/stdin"],stdin=fopen("read.fastq","r") ,stdout=PIPE,stderr=PIPE)

print p.stderr

p.stdout.close()

More:

http://pymotw.com/2/subprocess/