Execute Linux commands in Python
For last few days, I am doing an interesting project, for which I require to execute some Linux commands from Python. So I searched a bit for it and found an way to do it. For example if I want to run the command 'ls -lt', I can use the following code: import os os.system('ls -lt') But problem is I want to store the result in a list. Then I thought of writing the output to a file and read the file into a list. My code was: import os os.system('ls -lt > output.txt') Can you suggest a better way?