How to call a shell script function/variable from python?

Question

Is there any way to call a shell script and use the functions/variable defined in the script from python?

The script is unix_shell.sh

#!/bin/bash
fun         


        

Answer 1

With the help of above answer and this answer, I come up with this:

import subprocess
command = 'bash -c "source ~/.fileContainingTheFunction && theFunction"'
stdout = subprocess.getoutput(command)
print(stdout)

I'm using Python 3.6.5 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.