无法在php中执行python脚本

I am facing problem while retrieving result from python script

my php script as follows:

<?php
   $cmd=escapeshellcmd('/opt/lampp/htdocs/adpNews/adpScripts/getArticle.py');
$result=shell_exec("python $cmd");
echo $result;                   
?>

my Python script as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from newspaper import Article

url=u'http://www.abplive.in/india-news/countering-terrorism-an-important-shared-objective-by-india-united-states-manohar-parrikar-407134'

article=Article(url)
article.download()
article.parse()
print article.text

Please do give me the solution