<quote what="earlier relevant post" reason="context"> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Gnarlodious <gnarlodi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I get it, you instantiate an object, call a method and get a tuple in > response. However, here is what I see: > >>>> process.communicate() > (b'~/Library/Preferences/iCab/iCab 4 Bookmarks: Permission denied\n', > b'') > > So all I get is the string and no error message, </quote>
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Gnarlodious <gnarlodi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 2, 9:29 pm, Chris Rebert wrote: > >> if proc.returncode: # non-zero exit status, indicating error >> print("Encountered error:") >> print(error_output) # output the error message >> > > Like in my previous post, this only outputs an empty string. > Apparently plutil doesn't communicate well. Yes, it seems to output its error message to stdout, rather than stderr in line with *nix conventions as one would expect. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list