Shell commands in Python using subprocess

subprocess.py

import subprocess

def execute_in_shell(command, verbose=False):
    """ 
        command -- keyword argument, takes a list as input
        verbsoe -- keyword argument, takes a boolean value as input
    
        This is a function that executes shell scripts from within python.
        
        Keyword argument 'command', should be a list of shell commands.
        Keyword argument 'versboe', should be a boolean value to set verbose level.
        
        Example usage: execute_in_shell(command = ['ls ./some/folder/',
                                                    ls ./some/folder/  -1 | wc -l'],
                                        verbose = True ) 
                                        
        This command returns dictionary with elements: Output and Error.
        
        Output records the console output,
        Error records the console error messages.
                                        
    """
    error = []
    output = []
    
    if isinstance(command, list):
        for i in range(len(command)):
            try:
                process = subprocess.Popen(command[i], shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
                process.wait()
                out, err = process.communicate()
                error.append(err)
                output.append(out)
                if verbose:
                    print ('Success running shell command: {}'.format(command[i]))
            except Exception as e:
                print ('Failed running shell command: {}'.format(command[i]))
                if verbose:
                    print(type(e))
                    print(e.args)
                    print(e)
                    print(logging.error(e, exc_info=True))
    else:
        raise ValueError('Expects a list input ...')
    return {'Output': output, 'Error': error }
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
  command = ['mkdir ~/Desktop/New_photos/'
             'cd ~/Desktop/My_folder/Photos/ ; shuf -n 10 -e *.jpg | xargs -i cp {} ../../New_photos/',
             'ls ~/Desktop/New_photos/  -1 | wc -l']

  print ((execute_in_shell(command)).get('Output'))