On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:02:53 +0100, MRAB wrote:
> On 2016-04-04 20:42, Wildman via Python-list wrote:
>> launch_help()
>>
> .Popen will accept either a string or a list of strings.
>
> You're giving it a list that contains a string and a list.
Yep, that was my foolish mistake. Thanks.
> BTW
On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:54:56 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Wildman via Python-list
> wrote:
>> commandlist = commandlist.split(",")
>
> commandlist is a list.
>
>> command = [target, commandlist]
>> subprocess.Popen(command)
>
> T
On 2016-04-04 20:42, Wildman via Python-list wrote:
I am working on a Linux gui program where I want to be able
to click a Help button and open a man page using a viewer.
I wrote a search function that can be called several times,
if needed, with different arguments. I wrote a test program
that
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Wildman via Python-list
wrote:
> commandlist = commandlist.split(",")
commandlist is a list.
> command = [target, commandlist]
> subprocess.Popen(command)
This is passing a list containing two elements: the first is a string,
a
I am working on a Linux gui program where I want to be able
to click a Help button and open a man page using a viewer.
I wrote a search function that can be called several times,
if needed, with different arguments. I wrote a test program
that tries to open the Bash man page in a terminal and will
