2008/3/27, Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I am trying to replace os.system calls with subprocess.Popen. This simple
> example fails miserably:
>
> >>> proc = subprocess.Popen ("ls /tmp")
proc = subprocess.Popen ("ls /tmp", shell=True)
or
proc = subprocess.Popen (["ls", "/tmp"])
should work.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File "/home/titan/skipm/local/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in
> __init__
> errread, errwrite)
> File "/home/titan/skipm/local/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1091, in
> _execute_child
> raise child_exception
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>
> I also tried explicitly referencing /usr/bin/ls. Same result. What gives?
> I see this behavior in both Python 2.4 and 2.5 on Solaris 10 and with
> 2.6alpha on Mac OS X.
>
> Frustrated in Chicago...
>
> Skip
>
>
>
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