- 1). Import the "os" module:
>>>import os - 2). Issue a command to the shell through the "popen" function, and save the returned results in a variable. The popen function sends the command to a command shell, which executes the command in the operating system:
>>>l = os.popen('ls'') - 3). Read the commands from the variable using the "readline" function. This will return the first line of output from the shell command:
>>>l.readline()
'/etc'
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