How to run command line inside a django view?

Question

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I have a file upload operation in my Django application (on ubuntu server), I have to execute an operation after the user uploaded the file. The tool for that is only available as a npm package (accessible via command line).

1. What is the recommended solution for this?

Answer 1

Django is is python webframework. So you can use any of the module provided by python. However give a try to subprocess module. This module is a preferred way of running other programs with Python. Take a look.

import subprocess print(subprocess.check_output(['ls','-l']))