AUTO 07p run from an iPython Notebook

auto_in_notebook.ipynb

Hello ! Thanks for the wonderful tip. I try no to work out how to run AUTO from within a Python script. I haven't done it before and it gave me an error on the !echo. I tried this:

import os
import sys
auto_directory = os.system("echo $AUTO_DIR")
print auto_directory
#auto_directory = !echo $AUTO_DIR
if auto_directory == ['']:
    home = os.system("echo $HOME")
    auto_directory = home[0]+'/auto/07p/'
    sys.path.append(auto_directory+'/python')
else:
    sys.path.append(auto_directory[0] + '/python')
    


import AUTOCommands as ac
import AUTOclui as acl
import interactiveBindings as ib
import runAUTO as ra

But apparently os.system("echo $HOME") does not give me the HOME directory. Do you know what should I do?