Re: Fighting with subprocess.Popen

2010-02-15 Thread Nobody
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:43:22 +0100, Christian Heimes wrote: >> Below is a test case that demonstrates this. Tests 1 & 2 concatenate the >> command and the argument, Tests 3 & 4 mimic the python docs and use the form >> Popen(["mycmd", "myarg"], ...), which never seems to work. > > It doesn't work

Re: Fighting with subprocess.Popen

2010-02-14 Thread Christian Heimes
Mr.John wrote: > Below is a test case that demonstrates this. Tests 1 & 2 concatenate the > command and the argument, Tests 3 & 4 mimic the python docs and use the form > Popen(["mycmd", "myarg"], ...), which never seems to work. It doesn't work with shell=True because the shell is not able to int

Fighting with subprocess.Popen

2010-02-14 Thread Mr.John
I'm using Python 2.6.2 as packaged with Fedora 12. I'm trying to use subprocess.Popen() to call /usr/bin/pactl, a simple PulseAudio command parser. I'm having a hard time, because it only works part of the time. If pactl gets a blank or invalid command, it says "No valid command specified.", and t