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Cerulean · Jun 23rd, 2005, 6:24 PM

Be careful of the security implications of using os.system or any other process-spawning method in the os module that takes a string if you're passing user input on as parameters or something. You don't want to give the user of the script access to a shell, do you?
And you're better off using the subprocess module if you're using Python 2.4:

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import subprocess
subprocess.call(["program-name", "--param1", "--param2"])

Jun 23rd, 2005, 6:24 PM	#5
Cerulean Professional Programmer Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London, England Posts: 459 Rep Power: 4	Be careful of the security implications of using os.system or any other process-spawning method in the os module that takes a string if you're passing user input on as parameters or something. You don't want to give the user of the script access to a shell, do you? And you're better off using the subprocess module if you're using Python 2.4: (Toggle Plain Text) import subprocess subprocess.call(["program-name", "--param1", "--param2"]) import subprocess subprocess.call(["program-name", "--param1", "--param2"])