On Mar 25, 9:25 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:39:05 -0300, skunkwerk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > >> i'm trying to call subprocess.popen on the 'rename' function in > >> linux. When I run the command from the shell, like so: > > >> rename -vn 's/\.htm$/\.html/' *.htm > > >> it works fine... however when I try to do it in python like so: > >> p = subprocess.Popen(["rename","-vn","'s/\.htm$/ > >> \.html/'","*.htm"],stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE) > > >> print p.communicate()[0] > > >> nothing gets printed out (even for p.communicate()[1]) > > I'd try with: > > p = subprocess.Popen(["rename", "-vn", r"'s/\.htm$/\.html/'", "*.htm"], > stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, > shell=True) > > (note that I added shell=True and I'm using a raw string to specify the > reg.expr.) > > -- > Gabriel Genellina
Thanks Gabriel, I tried the new command and one with the raw string and single quotes, but it is still giving me the same results (no output). any other suggestions? cheers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
