Learning Python3, System calls on Linux, Python3

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Added: 1st of December 2020

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Learning Python3, System calls on Linux

The tutorial presumes you already have Python3 installed on your system. If you don't please visit my other tutorial, How to create a basic Python3 script in Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distributions

To make a system call from your Python script, for example displaying the current version of Python3 using the command python3 --version, we need to use the import os module, and use the os.system function

Create a new file named system_call.py and copy and paste the code below

#!/usr/bin/python3

import os
os.system('python3 --version')

Then enter the following command to make the Python script executable

chmod +x system_call.py

Then run the script by the entering the command

./system_call.py

If everything works correctly the current version of Python3 will be display in the terminal

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