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Open a terminal in Python script and execute terminal commands in that newly opened terminal

I need to create a Python script to open a terminal window in Mac/Linux and need to execute the following commands in terminal from Python script.
Open terminal
Execute the command sudo openpyn --init""
It will prompt for us to enter password and user name - Pass it from Python script
Tried with below but it is not working,Any idea or recommendations please.Will be of great help.
from openpyn import openpyn
import subprocess
import os
subprocess.call(["sudo openpyn --init"], shell=True)
os.system("sudo openpyn --init")
But it is not giving any results or not working as expected.

I don't fully understand the wording of your question, but if you want to pop up a Terminal and run:
ls -l
in that Terminal, you can do:
import os
os.system("""osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "ls -l"'""")

python: subprocess.Popen, openvpn command not found

OS X 10.13.6 Python 3.6
I am trying to run the following command from a jupyter notebook:
vpn_cmd = '''
sudo openvpn
--config ~/Downloads/configs/ipvanish-US-Chicago-chi-a49.ovpn
--ca ~/Downloads/configs/ca.ipvanish.com.crt'''
proc = Popen(vpn_cmd.split(), stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT)
stdout, stderr = proc.communicate()
print(stdout.decode())
But get the error:
sudo: openvpn: command not found
What I've tried:
added export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH" to my ~/.bash_profile and can run the the sudo openvpn command from my terminal
edited my sudoers file so sudo no longer prompts for a password
called sudo which openvpn and tried adding /usr/local/sbin/openvpn to my sys.path within python
not splitting vpn_cmd and setting shell=True
tried packaging it in a test.py script and executing from the terminal, but it just hangs at the proc.communicate() line
specified the full path for the --config and --ca flags
So far, nothing has fixed this. I can run openvpn from my terminal just fine. It seems like a simple path issue but I can't figure out what I need to add to my python path. Is there something particular with the jupyter notebook kernel?

Jupyter probably isn't picking up your personal .bashrc settings, depending also on how you are running it. Just hardcode the path or augment the PATH in your Python script instead.
With shell=False you don't get the tildes expanded; so you should change those to os.environ["HOME"], or make sure you know in which directory you run this, and use relative paths.
You should not be using Popen() if run can do what you require.
home = os.environ["HOME"]
r = subprocess.run(
['sudo', '/usr/local/sbin/openvpn',
'--config', home + '/Downloads/configs/ipvanish-US-Chicago-chi-a49.ovpn',
'--ca', home + '/Downloads/configs/ca.ipvanish.com.crt'],
stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
print(r.stdout)

Paramiko sed find and replace wont pass through

I am currently working on a script where when I launch an EC2 instance, I send a paramiko command to rename the host name. Because this is a custome AMI, I cannot use the AWS Boto3 CLI to do it, so I need to do it via an SSH command.
The problem I am running into, is Paramiko seems to fail at passing my specific command. It will pass other commands just fine, but I am assuming I am running into some sort of limitation of either paramiko or python and cannot seem to troubleshoot it. This is for a RHEL instance, so renaming the Network file is the only way I can think to do this.
If I run the command, as is, through the terminal of the host, it works. So something between paramiko and this command seems to be the blocker.
Here is my sample script t hat should work, but seems to fail at running the command.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import boto3
import time
import subprocess
import paramiko
import StringIO
c = paramiko.SSHClient()
c.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
c.connect(hostname = '12.34.56.78', username = "username", key_filename='''/Users/mallachar/Downloads/testkey.pem''' )
stdin , stdout, stderr = c.exec_command('sudo sed -i -E "s/^HOSTNAME.*/HOSTNAME=testhost.company/" /etc/sysconfig/network')
print stdout.read()
print stderr.read()
c.close
Here is me printing stdout and stderr
sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

Pretty simple, I had to add this to the command.
get_pty=True
so
stdin , stdout, stderr = c.exec_command('sudo sed -i -E "s/^HOSTNAME.*/HOSTNAME=testhost.company/" /etc/sysconfig/network',get_pty=True)

Run python script from rc.local does not execute

I want to run a python script on boot of ubuntu 14.04LTS.
My rc.local file is as follows:
sudo /home/hduser/morey/zookeeper-3.3.6/bin/zkServer.sh start
echo "test" > /home/hduser/test3
sudo /home/hduser/morey/kafka/bin/kafka-server-start.sh /home/hduser/morey/kafka/config/server.properties &
echo "test" > /home/hduser/test1
/usr/bin/python /home/hduser/morey/kafka/automate.py &
echo "test" > /home/hduser/test2
exit 0
everything except my python script is working fine even the echo statement after running the python script, but the python script doesnt seem to run.
My python script is as follows
import sys
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT
cmd = ["sudo", "./sbt", "project java-examples", "run"]
proc = Popen(cmd, shell=False, stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT)
proc.communicate(input='1\n')
proc.stdin.close()
which works perfectly fine if executed individually.
I went through the following questions , link
I did a lot of research but couldn't find a solution
Edit : echo statements are for testing purpose only, and the second actual command (not considering the echo statements) is starting a server which keeps on running, and even the python script starts a listener which runs on an infinite loop, if this is any help

The Python script tries to launch ./sbt. Are you sure of what if the current directory when rc.local runs? The rule is always use absolute paths in system scripts

Do not run the Python script in background, run it in foreground. Do not exit from its parent script. Better call another script from "rc.local" that does all the job of "echo" and script launching.
Run that script from "rc.local"; not in background (no &).
You do not need "sudo" as "rc.local" is run as root.

If you want to run python script at system boot there is an alternate solution which i have used.
1:Create sh file like sample.sh and copy paste following content
#!/bin/bash
clear
python yourscript.py
2:Now add a cron job at reboot.If you are using linux you can use as following
a:Run crontab -e(Install sudo apt-get install cron)
b:#reboot /full path to sh file > /home/path/error.log 2>&1
And restart your device

Opening a terminal application from python and running custom scripts inside it

I'm working with a software called dc_shell that has a terminal command (also called dc_shell) on a CentOS Linux server. when I run dc_shell command, I'm connected to its terminal and I'm able to run scripts/commands inside it. (This is all done manually)
So the real problem is that I want to do this task all from a Python program. Meaning that I have a Python code which does some task, and after that has to open dc_shell and run some commands inside it.
I have used subprocess.Popen before and this doesn't have any problem when I run commands like ls or other general terminal commands. But when I run dc_shell command it seems like it crashes and nothing happens, and when I try to terminate the session I get the following errors in my terminal.
Here's my code:
def run_scripts():
commandtext = 'cd ..; dc_shell-xg-t; set_app_var link_library "slow.db"; set_app_var target_library "slow.db"; set_app_var symbol_library "tsmc18.sdb";'
print(commandtext)
process = subprocess.Popen(commandtext,stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
proc_stdout = process.communicate()[0].strip()
print(proc_stdout)
and the output is:
cd ..; dc_shell-xg-t; set_app_var link_library "slow.db"; set_app_var target_library "slow.db"; set_app_var symbol_library "tsmc18.sdb";
and nothing happens... and after terminating I get:
[User#server python]$ /bin/sh: set_app_var: command not found
/bin/sh: set_app_var: command not found
/bin/sh: set_app_var: command not found

Do you need to use dc_shell to run your commands?
If so, that should be your executable and the rest of commands your arguments.
You should never use shell=True due to security considerations (the warning in the 2.x docs for subprocess seems much clearer to me).