Python - I'm trying to get the output of pwd and instead i get the exit status [duplicate]

Question

I'm trying to get the output of pwd:

#!python
import os
pwd = os.system("pwd")
print (pwd)

it prints 0 which is the successful exit status instead the path. How can i get the path instead?

Answer 1

Running system commands is better done with subprocess, but if you are using os already, why not just do

pwd = os.getcwd()

os.getcwd() is available on Windows and Unix.