Bugs item #1124861, was opened at 2005-02-17 09:23 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by bediviere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1124861&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Windows Group: Python 2.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: davids (davidschein) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: GetStdHandle in interactive GUI Initial Comment: Using the suprocess module from with IDLE or PyWindows, it appears that calls GetStdHandle (STD_<???>_HANDLE) returns None, which causes an error. (All appears fine on Linux, the standard Python command-line, and ipython.) For example: >>> import subprocess >>> p = subprocess.Popen("dir", stdout=subprocess.PIPE) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#49>", line 1, in -toplevel- p = subprocess.Popen("dir", stdout=subprocess.PIPE) File "C:\Python24\lib\subprocess.py", line 545, in __init__ (p2cread, p2cwrite, File "C:\Python24\lib\subprocess.py", line 605, in _get_handles p2cread = self._make_inheritable(p2cread) File "C:\Python24\lib\subprocess.py", line 646, in _make_inheritable DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS) TypeError: an integer is required The error originates in the mswindows implementation of _get_handles. You need to set one of stdin, stdout, or strerr because the first line in the method is: if stdin == None and stdout == None and stderr == None: ...return (None, None, None, None, None, None) I added "if not handle: return GetCurrentProcess()" to _make_inheritable() as below and it worked. Of course, I really do not know what is going on, so I am letting go now... def _make_inheritable(self, handle): ..."""Return a duplicate of handle, which is inheritable""" ...if not handle: return GetCurrentProcess() ...return DuplicateHandle(GetCurrentProcess(), handle, ....................................GetCurrentProcess(), 0, 1, ....................................DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Steven Bethard (bediviere) Date: 2005-09-26 08:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=945502 This issue was discussed on comp.lang.python[1] and Roger Upole suggested: """ Basically, gui apps like VS don't have a console, so GetStdHandle returns 0. _subprocess.GetStdHandle returns None if the handle is 0, which gives the original error. Pywin32 just returns the 0, so the process gets one step further but still hits the above error. Subprocess.py should probably check the result of GetStdHandle for None (or 0) and throw a readable error that says something like "No standard handle available, you must specify one" """ [1]http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-September/300744.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Steven Bethard (bediviere) Date: 2005-08-13 14:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=945502 I ran into a similar problem in Ellogon (www.ellogon.org) which interfaces with Python through tclpython (http://jfontain.free.fr/tclpython.htm). My current workaround is to always set all of stdin, stdout, and stderr to subprocess.PIPE. I never use the stderr pipe, but at least this keeps the broken GetStdHandle calls from happening. Looking at the code, I kinda think the fix should be:: if handle is None: return handle return DuplicateHandle(GetCurrentProcess(), ... where if handle is None, it stays None. But I'm also probably in over my head here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1124861&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com