On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Mark Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guido quotes a colleague:
Given a straightforward command list like:
cmd = ['svn', 'ls', 'http://rietveld.googlecode.com/svn/trunk']
You apparently cannot pass this list to any subprocess function
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Mark Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then it works on Linux, but fails on Windows because it does not
perform the Windows %PATHEXT% search that allows it to find that
svn.exe is the
Guido van Rossum wrote:
I can't reproduce this as described.
Which Windows version? This sounds like one of those things that could
well vary by Windows version; if it works for you in Vista it may well
be broken in XP. It could also vary by other setup parameters besides
PATHEXT.
It works
Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
I've found the documentation for CreateProcess
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682425.aspx) to be pretty
reliable. And the mention of a .com in the docs suggests that the
description has been around for a while...
And I just described it as pretty vague ;-)
Guido quotes a colleague:
Given a straightforward command list like:
cmd = ['svn', 'ls', 'http://rietveld.googlecode.com/svn/trunk']
You apparently cannot pass this list to any subprocess function
(subprocess.call() or otherwise) with a set of arguments that allow it
to just work
Several people at Google seem to have independently discovered that
despite all of the platform-independent goodness in subprocess.py, you
still need to be platform aware. One of my colleagues summarized it
like this:
Given a straightforward command list like:
cmd = ['svn', 'ls',
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:30:58PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
Unless I'm misremembering (I no longer have access to Windows), I
believe that if you use ' '.join(cmd) as the first argument, it will
work cross-platform.
What about arguments that contain spaces?
Oleg.
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Oleg
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unless I'm misremembering (I no longer have access to Windows), I believe
that if you use ' '.join(cmd) as the first argument, it will work
cross-platform.
That will mean something different if there are spaces or shell
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On Aug 25, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:30:58PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
Unless I'm misremembering (I no longer have access to Windows), I
believe that if you use ' '.join(cmd) as the first argument, it will
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 25, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Several people at Google seem to have independently discovered that
despite all of the platform-independent goodness in subprocess.py, you
still need to be platform
Guido van Rossum wrote:
Several people at Google seem to have independently discovered that
despite all of the platform-independent goodness in subprocess.py, you
still need to be platform aware.
I can verify this. For CP we went back to using spawnl, but in an
internal project we checked
Guido van Rossum wrote:
If you call:
subprocess.call(cmd, shell=False)
Then it works on Linux, but fails on Windows because it does not
perform the Windows %PATHEXT% search that allows it to find that
svn.exe is the actual executable to be invoked.
Maybe the Windows implementation
On Aug 25, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
If you call:
subprocess.call(cmd, shell=False)
Then it works on Linux, but fails on Windows because it does not
perform the Windows %PATHEXT% search that allows it to find that
svn.exe is the actual executable to be
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