Run shell command with input redirections from python 2.4?

Question

What I\'d like to achieve is the launch of the following shell command:

mysql -h hostAddress -u userName -p userPassword 
databaseName < fileName

Answer 1

You have to feed the file into mysql stdin by yourself. This should do it.

import subprocess
...
filename = ...
cmd = ["mysql", "-h", ip, "-u", mysqlUser, dbName]
f = open(filename)
subprocess.call(cmd, stdin=f)