On 10/25/2011 8:19 AM, Tim Golden wrote:
On 25/10/2011 08:01, Propad wrote:
Thnx again for all the answers. As stated before, I'm limited in my
options. One of them just might be to switch to Python 2.5, rewrite
the code that crashes using the subprocess module, and then somehow
patch the library I use (which I'm not suposed to do, but... oh
well :-)). I can just hope subrocess was already mature adn offering
the relevant functionality in 2.5.
I must admit I'm more than slightly surprised by this. My test case
is to use os.spawnl to run c:/windows/notepad.exe. From the docs,
I would expect to use os.spawnl (os.P_WAIT, "c:/windows/notepad.exe").
(I only want to open notepad.exe; there's no need for additional args).
These are my test cases:
(1)
os.spawnl (
os.P_WAIT,
"c:/windows/notepad.exe"
)
(2)
os.spawnl (
os.P_WAIT,
"c:/windows/notepad.exe",
"c:/windows/notepad.exe"
)
(3)
os.spawnl (
os.P_WAIT,
"c:/windows/notepad.exe",
"c:/windows/notepad.exe",
"c:/temp.txt"
)
And the results:
==============================================================
Python | Platform | Case | Result
--------------------------------------------------------------
2.2.2 | WinXP | 1 | Works (empty notepad)
2.2.2 | WinXP | 2 | Works (empty notepad)
2.2.2 | WinXP | 3 | Works (notepad temp.txt)
--------------------------------------------------------------
2.2.2 | Win7 | 1 | OSError
2.2.2 | Win7 | 2 | Works (empty notepad)
2.2.2 | Win7 | 3 | Works (notepad temp.txt)
--------------------------------------------------------------
2.7.2 | WinXP | 1 | Crashes
2.7.2 | WinXP | 2 | Works (empty notepad)
2.7.2 | WinXP | 3 | Works (notepad temp.txt)
--------------------------------------------------------------
2.7.2 | Win7 | 1 | Crashes
2.7.2 | Win7 | 2 | Works (empty notepad)
2.7.2 | Win7 | 3 | Works (notepad temp.txt)
==============================================================
Add to this a look at the mscrt source which ships with VS 2008
and the MSDN docs for spawnl:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wweek9sc%28v=vs.80%29.aspx
and we see that the first args parameter must be the same as the
path parameter.
FWIW, at no extra cost, I went to the trouble of testing it on some
flavour of Linux with Python 2.6 and got the same results
as per 2.2.2 on WinXP. (Basically: everything works).
Which leaves us with http://bugs.python.org/issue8036 in which recent
versions of Python crash when the (arbitrary) second parameter isn't
passed. And with an inexplicable behaviour change between the same
version of Python running on WinXP and on Win7.
OP reports 2.6 with XP works. Did that use VS 2005? Maybe C runtime
changed (regressed). Also, could there be a 32 v. 64 bit issue?
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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