hello ive been working on a small project and im a bit stuck.
import subprocess
path = "/var/log"
#i wanna be able to do something like
subprocess.call("nano path")
# but i noticed that using nano like that wont work because path is just a python string
any help
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thanks im gonna test it out as soon as i get home and give an update
unfortunately i did not get our solution to work i kept getting an error "file or directory not found" however after a little digging Here i realized that to get subprocess() to execute "nano path" i would have to supply arguments as alist eg.
import subprocess
path = "somefile.txt"
subprocess.call([nano, path])
The other solution is to add shell = True to subprocess.call()'s arguments.
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