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14.16.8.os.system(command) executes a system function as if it were in a subshell

import os



os.system("dir")

14.16.sys
	14.16.1.	The list of search path can be found in the path variable in the sys module:
	14.16.2.	stdin of the sys module is a file object
	14.16.3.	sys module has the stdout and stderr attributes that point to files used for standard output and standard error output.
	14.16.4.	Using sys.modules
	14.16.5.	Redirecting Output
	14.16.6.	Redirecting Error Information
	14.16.7.	Printing to stderr
	14.16.8.	os.system(command) executes a system function as if it were in a subshell
	14.16.9.	sys.exit() and SystemExit
	14.16.10.	sys.exitfunc()
	14.16.11.	Append path to system path

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