# You can use following commands to run any shell command. I have used them on ubuntu.
import os
os.popen('your command here').read()
# Note: This is deprecated since python 2.6. Now you must use subprocess.Popen. Below is the example
import subprocess
p = subprocess.Popen("Your command", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
print p.split("
")
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
path = "echo"
pipe = Popen(path, stdout=PIPE)
text, err = pipe.communicate()
if(pipe.returncode==0)
print( text, err)