Why use Python's os module methods instead of executing shell commands directly?

Published: 31 March 2023
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00:00 Question
01:13 Accepted answer (Score 327)
03:41 Answer 2 (Score 133)
04:08 Answer 3 (Score 60)
08:01 Answer 4 (Score 23)
09:16 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...

Answer 2 links:
[os]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/os....
[os.system]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/os....
[subprocess]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/sub...
[redundant code]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundan...
[os.system]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/os....
[subprocess]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/sub...
[source code portability]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software...
[os]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/os....
[os.listdir]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/os....
[Don't Repeat Yourself]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_re...
[shell injection examples]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_inj...

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