On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 04/08/2013 08:01 AM, Dylan Evans wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Alain Ketterlin <
>> al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>
>> loial writes:
>>>
>>> I want to call a child process to run a shell script and wait for
On 04/08/2013 07:00 AM, loial wrote:
I want to call a child process to run a shell script and wait for that script
to finish. Will the code below wait for the script to finish? If not then how
do I make it wait?
Any help appreciated.
import subprocess
command = "/home/john/myscript"
proces
On 04/08/2013 08:01 AM, Dylan Evans wrote:
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Alain Ketterlin
wrote:
loial writes:
I want to call a child process to run a shell script and wait for that
script to finish. Will the code below wait for the script to finish?
If not then how do I make it wait?
[.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
> loial writes:
>
> > I want to call a child process to run a shell script and wait for that
> > script to finish. Will the code below wait for the script to finish?
> > If not then how do I make it wait?
> [...]
> > process = subprocess.Pop
loial writes:
> I want to call a child process to run a shell script and wait for that
> script to finish. Will the code below wait for the script to finish?
> If not then how do I make it wait?
[...]
> process = subprocess.Popen(command,
> stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=su
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:02:23 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
> p = subprocess.Popen(['du', '-sh'], cwd='/Users/jay/.Trash/',
> stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
> Alternatively, you can opt to use the shell by passing shell=True as
> an argument.
Except that the OP is talking about a directory passed
> import subprocess
> p = subprocess.Popen(['du', '-sh'], cwd='/Users/jay/.Trash/',
>> stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
> out, err = p.communicate()
> out
>> ' 11M\t.\n'
> You might prefer to use subprocess.check_output(); it slightly
> simplifies your code:
> http://docs.python.or
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:39 PM, wrote:
> Wondering if anyone could shed some light on the subprocess module? I'll
> admit I'm not that great at the shell.
>
> If I was wanting to get the size of the trash (on OS X), I could use:
>
os.system('du -sh ~/.Trash/')
> 11M /Users/jay/.Trash/
On 12/11/2011 10:39 PM, jyoun...@kc.rr.com wrote:
> And another question - why can't I use the tilde as a shortcut to the home
> directory?
Because subprocess doesn't use the shell (which is what expands the
tilde to the invoking user's home directory). I recommend using
os.path.join and os.enviro
