How to shutdown a computer using Python

Question

I've written a Python script which should eventually shutdown the computer.

This line is a part of it :

os.system("shutdown /p")

It makes some sort of a shutdown but remains on the turn-on Windows control pannel (where the user can switch the computer users).

Is there a way to fully shutdown the computer?

I've tried other os.system("shutdown ___") methods with no success.

Is there another method which might help?

Answer 1

import os
os.system('shutdown -s')

This will work for you.

Answer 2

For Linux:

import os
os.system('sudo shutdown now')

or: if you want immediate shutdown without sudo prompt for password, use the following for Ubuntu and similar distro's:

os.system('systemctl poweroff')