On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Gnarlodious <gnarlodi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm running a shell command like: > plutil -convert xml1 "~/Library/Preferences/iCab/iCab 4 Bookmarks" > > Getting error: > ~/Library/Preferences/iCab/iCab 4 Bookmarks: Permission denied > > How would I capture this error using a method of subprocess? > > I read the doc at > http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/library/subprocess.html > > but confess I don't understand it. > > -- Gnarlie > http://Gnarlodious.com/ > --
Yeah, the subprocess docs are a bit confusing. Here's what you need to do. from subprocess import Popen, PIPE #create a Popen object #note that I'm putting the command in a list #the stdout=PIPE thing says I want to capture it process = Popen( ['plutil', '-convert', 'xml1', '~/Library/Preferences/iCab/iCab 4 Bookmarks'], stdout = PIPE, stderr = PIPE) #then, you communicate with the process outdata, errdata = process.communicate() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
