Editing gdal_translate when scripted?

Question

I'm relatively new to python scripting and I'm trying to batch process a number of files, with the first command being to convert formats.

gdal_translate -of KEA NDVI_20160101.tif NDVI_20160101.KEA

works perfectly when inputting the command directly into the terminal but when I copy and paste the command into a text editor and try and run the script from the destination with:

python ./SCRIPT_NAME.py

I get SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Answer 1

os.system() and os.popen() have been deprecated since Python 2.6 in favor of the subprocess module (for various reasons), see Calling gdal utilities from within python using subprocess.

import subprocess
subprocess.call('gdal_translate -of AAIGrid KEA NDVI_20160101.tif NDVI_20160101.KEA', shell=True)

Answer 2

You can't do this directly like that. If you want to run command in Python you should use:

import os
os.system("gdal_translate -of KEA NDVI_20160101.tif NDVI_20160101.KEA ")