Python help needed please

[Version_3]

lets say I import os, import sys, have a couple user inputted variables which then are used in a command, why are escaped single quotes not working? So far, here's the command I'm trying to get to run in the interpreter:

os.system("""echo """ + prompt + """ '''/admin/script/netgroupcat hosts_nas_erp_shr | /usr/bin/grep """ + sname + """ | /usr/bin/awk -F"(" \'{print \$2}\' | /usr/bin/awk -F''' | tee -a /tmp/test_out.txt""")

and

os.system("echo " + prompt + " '''/admin/script/netgroupcat hosts_nas_erp_shr | /usr/bin/grep " + sname +" | /usr/bin/awk -F\"(\" \'{print \$2}\' | /usr/bin/awk -F''' | tee -a /tmp/test_out.txt")

For some reason I cannot do a

\'

. The output consistently removes the '

Output seen in /tmp/test_out.txt is:

root@srvr123 # /admin/script/netgroupcat hosts_nas_erp_shr | /usr/bin/grep erpitest2s | /usr/bin/awk -F"(" {print $2} | /usr/bin/awk -F

The purpose is to echo out the command used into a file before the command is actually ran. I could do a shell script, but for the other commands, shell script will not work. /admin/scripts/netgroupcat checks our nis netgroups for netgroupname.

Help a n00b out? OS is solaris 10 with I believe python 2.3

 

[Version_3]

moot point. I got the commands to work in a shell script after all.

Thanks.