plz help how to print python variable using os.system()

[jitender001001]

hi all
i m new to python and i have a problem of printing python
variable using os.system() in bash

!/usr/bin/env python

var = "/home/anonymous"
os.system("echo $var)

it is not working..
i want to print string using os.system() ....plz help

 

[Lutz Horn]

Hi,

var = "/home/anonymous"
os.system("echo $var)

os.system("echo %s" % var)

Lutz

 

[jitender001001]

Thanks Lutz.......

 

[Grant Edwards]

Hi,



os.system("echo %s" % var)

Though one wonders why one would do that instead of simply doing

print var