running a command as a super user from a python script

Question

So I\'m trying to get a process to be run as a super user from within a python script using subprocess. In the ipython shell something like

proc = subproces         


        

Answer 1

You have to use Popen like this:

cmd = ['sudo', 'apache2ctl', 'restart']
proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

It expects a list.