Alex Naumov wrote: > I'm trying to call new process with some parameters. The problem is that > the last parameter is a "string" that has a lot of spaces and different > symbols like slash and so on. I can save it in file and use name of this > file as parameter, but my question is: how to make it without additional > saving? > > import subprocess as sp > > rc = sp.Popen(["prog", "--options", "<", msg], stdin=sp.PIPE, > stdout=sp.PIPE) > stdout = rc.communicate()[0] > print stdout
> p.s. > type(msg) => <type 'str'> The < operator is a shell feature, not an argument, and msg is intended to be send to prog's stdin. The communicate() method accepts a parameter for that. So: rc = sp.Popen(["prog", "--options"], stdin=sp.PIPE, stdout=sp.PIPE) stdout = rc.communicate(msg)[0] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
