Open a terminal in Python script and execute terminal commands in that newly opened terminal

Question

I need to create a Python script to open a terminal window in Mac/Linux and need to execute the following commands in terminal from Python script.

Open terminal
Execute the command sudo openpyn --init""
It will prompt for us to enter password and user name - Pass it from Python script

Tried with below but it is not working,Any idea or recommendations please.Will be of great help.

from openpyn import openpyn
import subprocess
import os

subprocess.call(["sudo openpyn --init"], shell=True)
os.system("sudo openpyn --init")

But it is not giving any results or not working as expected.

Beware, by default sudo reads a password from /dev/tty because a password has no reason to come from another program... — Serge Ballesta
– Serge Ballesta, Commented Jan 29, 2020 at 12:16
You didn't start a Terminal, you started a shell. Maybe os.system("""osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "echo hello"'""") — Mark Setchell
– Mark Setchell, Commented Jan 29, 2020 at 12:19
@MarkSetchell Thanks a lot !! os.system("""osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "echo hello"'""") added this line terminal window is popping up, But when i try to execute the terminal commands like os.sysstem("""ls -l""") no results are coming any idea how we can do this? — Sandeep
– Sandeep, Commented Jan 29, 2020 at 12:37
@SergeBallesta I was thinking if we can spawn a terminal window and execute the commands from PYTHON ,will it be possible to pass credentials like user name and password from there? — Sandeep
– Sandeep, Commented Jan 29, 2020 at 12:39
You've done exactly the same thing again. You haven't started a Terminal, you just are running ls without a Terminal. — Mark Setchell
– Mark Setchell, Commented Jan 29, 2020 at 12:39

Mark Setchell · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-29 12:44:03Z

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I don't fully understand the wording of your question, but if you want to pop up a Terminal and run:

ls -l

in that Terminal, you can do:

import os
os.system("""osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "ls -l"'""")

answered Jan 29, 2020 at 12:44

Mark Setchell

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This is specific to Mac. If you need something similar on Linux, try xterm -e 'ls -l' & or whichever terminal application you want to spawn.

@MarkSetchall One thing if you can answer this it would be great, What if i want to execute multiple terminal commands in the same terminal window?

Change ls -l to date; ls -l; pwd