On Friday, July 13, 2012, nuffi wrote:
>
> If I copy and paste the following command into a command window, it does
> what I need.
>
> c:\Programs\bob\bob.exe -x -y "C:\text\path\to some\file.txt" |
> c:\Programs\kate\kate.exe -A 2 --dc "Print Media Is Dead" --da "Author"
> --dt "Title" --hf "Times" --bb "14" --aa "" --font "Ariel" -
> "C:\rtf\path\to some\file.rtf"
>
> My mission is to recreate this command within a python script, so that I
> can pass a bunch of different parameters into it, and use it as a batch
> over a bunch of different papers.
>
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>
> The code I came up with looks like this:
>
> import os, glob, subprocess
>
> sourceDir = "c:\\text\\"
> destDir = "c:\\rtf\\"
> bobPath = "C:\\Programs\\bob\\bob.exe"
> katePath = "C:\\Programs\\kate\\kate.exe"
>
> def get_new_path(doc):
> blah = doc.replace(sourceDir, destDir)
> if not os.path.isdir(blah):
> os.makedirs(blah)
> rtf = blah.replace('.txt', '.rtf')
> pathString = '- "' + (os.path.join(rtf)) + '"'
> return(pathString)
>
>
> def convert_doc(doc):
> dc = '--dc "Print Media Is Dead"'
> da = '--da "Author"'
> dt = '--dt "Title"'
> hf = '--hf "Times"'
> fn = '--font "Ariel"'
> bb = '--bb "14"'
> docpath = '"' + (os.path.join(doc)) + '"'
> path = get_new_path(doc)
> A = '-A 2'
> bob = subprocess.Popen([bobPath, '-x', '-y', docpath], stdout =
> subprocess.PIPE,)
> kate = subprocess.Popen([katePath, A, dc, da, dt, hf, fn, bb, path],
> stdin = bob.stdout, stdout = subprocess.PIPE,)
Your tokenization of the command is wrong. Read the Note box in the
subprocess docs for guidance on how to get it right:
http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#popen-constructor
Cheers,
Chris via iPhone
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