Echoing the windows path in python

Question

Essentially what I am trying to do is

from subprocess import call
print call(['echo', '%path%'])

however 'echo' is not recognized as an executable is there some kind of workaround?

Answer 1

I don't have a windows computer, but you could probably use os.environ to get it without relying on an external utility -- On *NIX it looks something like:

import os
print (os.environ['PATH'])

Answer 2

mgilson有更好的建议，但无论如何，仅供参考， echo是cmd.exe的内置命令：

subprocess.call("CMD /C ECHO %PATH%")

Answer 3

echo is not an executable, it is a shell command.

To execute shell commands, use:

subprocess.call("echo %PATH%", shell=True)