Execute python in a php script using shell_exec()

Question

I\'m experiencing a weird problem in trying to execute python in a php server (LAMP). (safe_mode off)

if I type:

$output = shell_exec(\"ls -lah\");
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Answer 1

What does

which python

tell you, both from the command line and from shell_exec()? It should tell you which (if any) Python interpreter it's finding (from $PATH). Don't forget that it's quite possible that the $PATH used from the Linux command line might not be the same as the $PATH used by shell_exec()! Once you find the Python interpreter you want to use, you might have to hard code it in the shell_exec().