Is this the right way to run a shell script inside Python?

Question

import subprocess
retcode = subprocess.call([\"/home/myuser/go.sh\", \"abc.txt\", \"xyz.txt\"])

When I run these 2 lines, will I be doing exactly t

Answer 1

I recently ran into this problem with a script that looked like this:

% cat /tmp/test.sh
                              <-- Note the empty line
#!/bin/sh
mkdir /tmp/example

The script ran fine from the command line, but failed with

OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error

when executed via

subprocess.Popen(['/tmp/test.sh']).communicate()

(The solution, of course, was to remove the empty line).