What's the difference between Python's subprocess.call and subprocess.run

Question

I\'ve been trying to understand for a while now what\'s the difference between subprocess.call and subprocess.run. I know the last one is new on Py

Answer 1

To make it clear for anyone wanting to know which to use:

subprocess.run() is the recommended approach for all use cases it can handle. The suprocess documentation states:

The recommended approach to invoking subprocesses is to use the run() function for all use cases it can handle. For more advanced use cases, the underlying Popen interface can be used directly.

subprocess.call() is part of the Older high-level API (Prior to Python 3.5).