The Old Way

import os os.system('find /home/user/documents -type f -iname "*.doc"')

The New, Recommended Way

import subprocess subprocess.check_call([ 'find', '/home/user/documents', '-type', 'f', '-iname', '*.doc' ])

Bonus Tidbit

At this point, we can incorporate some nice exception handling:

import subprocess try: subprocess.check_call([ …

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