On Tuesday 19 November 2013 17:02:37 Mark Lawrence did opine: > On 19/11/2013 19:06, xDog Walker wrote: > > On Tuesday 2013 November 19 10:43, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Interesting, a print cmd immediately in front of that is quite noisy: > >> ['./camview-emc-f1oat.py', '-v', '1280x720', '-C', 'camview.cfg', > >> '-g', 'cam.ui', '-H', 'campins.hal', '-w', '150995278'] > > > > The file it cannot find is apparently ./camview-emc.float.py > > > >> So, I'll try this: > >> child = Popen(["cmd"]), but that's not the fix. > > > > That should produce the same result as before (plus gales of laughter > > from the bleachers). > Expected. Python code isn't my forte obviously. :) > Just to be sure is it a simple typo "f1oat" with a one instead of > "float" with an ell?
That it was, now renamed. And now that I know it works albeit in a separate window, I will now go back to the original syntax just to check, but no, the additional ", shell=True" without the double-quotes, inside the parens is still needed. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I never met a man I didn't want to fight. -- Lyle Alzado, professional football lineman A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list