How to execute a program or call a system command?

Use the subprocess module in the standard library: The advantage of subprocess.run over os.system is that it is more flexible (you can get the stdout, stderr, the “real” status code, better error handling, etc…). Even the documentation for os.system recommends using subprocess instead: The subprocess module provides more powerful facilities for spawning new processes and retrieving their results; using that module is preferable to using this function. See the Replacing Older Functions with … Read more

raw_input function in Python

It presents a prompt to the user (the optional arg of raw_input([arg])), gets input from the user and returns the data input by the user in a string. See the docs for raw_input(). Example: This differs from input() in that the latter tries to interpret the input given by the user; it is usually best to avoid input() and to stick with raw_input() and custom … Read more

Difference between import numpy and import numpy as np

numpy is the top package name, and doing import numpy doesn’t import submodule numpy.f2py. When you do import numpy it creats a link that points to numpy, but numpy is not further linked to f2py. The link is established when you do import numpy.f2py In your above code: Here is the difference between import numpy.f2py and import numpy.f2py as myf2py: import numpy.f2py put numpy into local symbol table(pointing to numpy), and … Read more