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Running Bash commands in Python
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I read this somewhere a while ago but cant seem to find it. I am trying to find a command that will execute commands ….
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How to recognize whether a script is running on a tty?
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Is there a way to detect whether sys.stdout is attached to a console terminal or not? For exampl….
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How to clear the interpreter console?
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Does any standard “comes with batteries” method exist to clear the terminal screen from a Python script, or do I ….
Is there a way in python to programmatically determine the width of the console? I mean the number of characters that fits in one line without wrapping, not the pixel width of the window.
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Looking for a solution that works on Linux
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When piping the output of a Python program, the Python interpreter gets confused about encoding and sets it to None. This means a program like this:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print u”åäö”
will work fine when run normally, but fail with:
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xa0′ in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
when ….
How do I call an external command within Python as if I’d typed it in a shell or command prompt?