Correct Way In Python To Write A Bash For Loop With `subprocess`

In this other SO question I saw that this syntax of bash when writing a for loop doesn't seem to work in Python: ~ $ for num in {2..4}; do echo $num; done 2 3 4 As instead of 4 di

Solution 1:

Post How to use the bash shell with Python's subprocess module instead of /bin/sh shows that it uses /bin/sh but you can use executable='/bin/bash' to change it

import subprocess

print(subprocess.check_output("for num in {2..4}; do echo $num; done", shell=True, executable='/bin/bash').decode())

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Eventually you can use bash -c "command"

import subprocess

print(subprocess.check_output('bash -c "for num in {2..4}; do echo $num; done" ', shell=True).decode())