run
- run(args, *, stdin=None, input=None, stdout=None, stderr=None, capture_output=False, shell=False, cwd=None, timeout=None, check=False, encoding=None, errors=None, text=None, env=None, universal_newlines=None, **other_popen_kwargs)
Run command with arguments and return a CompletedProcess instance. The returned instance will have attributes args, returncode, stdout and stderr. By default, stdout and stderr are not captured, and those attributes will be None. Pass stdout=PIPE and/or stderr=PIPE in order to capture them, or pass capture_output=True to capture both. If check is True and the exit code was non-zero, it raises a CalledProcessError. The CalledProcessError object will have the return code in the returncode attribute, and output & stderr attributes if those streams were captured. If timeout (seconds) is given and the process takes too long, a TimeoutExpired exception will be raised. There is an optional argument "input", allowing you to pass bytes or a string to the subprocess's stdin. If you use this argument you may not also use the Popen constructor's "stdin" argument, as it will be used internally. By default, all communication is in bytes, and therefore any "input" should be bytes, and the stdout and stderr will be bytes. If in text mode, any "input" should be a string, and stdout and stderr will be strings decoded according to locale encoding, or by "encoding" if set. Text mode is triggered by setting any of text, encoding, errors or universal_newlines. The other arguments are the same as for the Popen constructor.
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Changed in 3.6, 3.7, 3.12
- 3.6: Added encoding and errors parameters
- 3.7: Added the text parameter, as a more understandable alias of universal_newlines. Added the capture_output parameter.
- 3.12: Changed Windows shell search order for shell=True. The current directory and %PATH% are replaced with %COMSPEC% and %SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe. As a result, dropping a malicious program named cmd.exe into a current directory no longer works.
1 Example
>>> subprocess.run(["ls", "-l"]) # doesn't capture output CompletedProcess(args=['ls', '-l'], returncode=0) >>> subprocess.run("exit 1", shell=True, check=True) Traceback (most recent call last): ... subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'exit 1' returned non-zero exit status 1 >>> subprocess.run(["ls", "-l", "/dev/null"], capture_output=True) CompletedProcess(args=['ls', '-l', '/dev/null'], returncode=0, stdout=b'crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jan 23 16:23 /dev/null\n', stderr=b'')
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