I tripped over this one trying to make one of our Python at work Windows compatible. We had no idea that a magic 'SystemRoot' environment variable would be required, and it was causing issues for pyzmq.
It might be nice to reflect the findings of this email thread on the subprocess documentation page: http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html Currently the docs mention this: "Note If specified, env must provide any variables required for the program to execute. On Windows, in order to run a side-by-side assembly the specified env must include a valid SystemRoot." How about rewording that to: "Note If specified, env must provide any variables required for the program to execute. On Windows, a valid SystemRoot environment variable is required for some Python libraries such as the 'random' module. Also, in order to run a side-by-side assembly the specified env must include a valid SystemRoot." _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
