New submission from Elja van Tol: I tried a simple console command: import subprocess subprocess.call(["dir"], shell=True)
Which failed with an WindowsError 2, (could not find file) After much googling i found out that this is caused by os.environ['COMSPEC'] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20330385/cannot-find-the-file-specified-when-using-subprocess-calldir-shell-true-in#comment30370433_20335954) At first my COMSPEC was: C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;C:\Users\welja\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\phpunit\phpunit;C:\Python27; I added ;%SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe but that failed. I then changed COMSPEC to only contain %SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe and that worked. ( Please fix this for others like me, users stuck on windows with no knowlegde of Python who just try to get Fabric to work to deploy some PHP sites :) ) ---------- components: Windows messages: 213234 nosy: elja priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: COMSPEC with multiple paths breaks subprocess.call type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20894> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
