Can we execute mutiple commands in the same command prompt launched by python script?

Question

I have used os.system(command) in a for loop.

By using this, CMD opens, executes the command and close. For Second command, CMD opens again, executes tha command and close. Due to this, CMD pop-ups again and again.

Meanwhile, I am not able to do another task on system. I want to do this in a CMD so that i can minimize it and continue with other task.

• Sven Marnach: Why not use subprocess.call() to run your subprocesses without using cmd at all?

Answer 1

You can just concatenate your commands, delimited by a semicolon (;) and only call os.system once.

• Klaus Byskov Pedersen: @danihp no, but in windows you can use && instead.
• devi: Commands are read from a excel file in every iteration so cant be concatenated. Is there any other solution?

Answer 2

Another approach is to write all of the command strings to a .bat or .cmd file, and then execute the resulting file with os.system.

This is more useful if the number of commands per iteration is "large-ish" and less useful if there are only a few commands per iteration.

Answer 3

If you plan to execute this command in a remote machine, then you may consider using Paramiko. I have personally found it very useful and it lets you execute the command as root also.