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How to pass a variable to subprocess.check_call - champweller - Mar-15-2019
Hey Fellow forum users!
I was hoping someone could help me understand how to simplify my code.
I am trying to write a simple script that runs a bat file and some applications to automate the cleaning of a PC. My script is working fine ,however, I would like to improve my code so that I can change the path to the applications via variable rather than changing each line that holds the path to the application.
I would like to use something like this
mypath = "\\localhost\SOFTWARE"However I can't find a way to do this after all my google searches I thought something like the below might work however after this change my script would not run. (I can get the error if needed)
subprocess.check_call([r'{}\ccleaner.exe','/auto'.format(mypath)])Below is my working script. Could anyone help and give me some insight on what I am trying to accomplish?import os
import subprocess
os.chdir(r'\\localhost\\SOFTWARE')
os.startfile('win7tempclean.bat')
subprocess.check_call([r'\\localhost\SOFTWARE\ccleaner.exe','/auto'])
subprocess.check_call([r'\\localhost\SOFTWARE\hmp.exe','/scan','/quiet'])
RE: How to pass a variable to subprocess.check_call - heiner55 - May-26-2019
subprocess.check_call([ r'{}\ccleaner.exe'.format(mypath), '/auto' ])