Calling PowerShell command from Python

Calling powershell command from Python

The subprocess module is a module in Python standard library.It consists of the call method which can be used to create new processes and receive there return values and error codes/

To run a powershell command you just pass the command name to the call method as a string.Here we are executing the netstat command:

import subprocess 
subprocess.call("netstat -nb")

Passing parameters from powershell to Python script

Execute following command in powershell.This will assign result of the powershell command to a powershell variable.The variable name here is $result.

$result=netstat -nb

You can call the above Python script from powershell as:

& python.exe Full path  -p  $result

 

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