Using Python to open a shell environment, run a command and exit environment

Question

I\'m trying to automate a process using python. If I am just in the terminal the workflow looks like:

user:> . /path/to/env1.sh
user:> python somethin         


        

Answer 1

p = subprocess.Popen(". /path/to/env.sh", shell = True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
subprocess.call("python something.py", shell = True).communicate()