Skip Montanaro wrote: >>> >>> proc = subprocess.Popen ("ls /tmp") >>> >> proc = subprocess.Popen ("ls /tmp", shell=True) >> >> or >> >> proc = subprocess.Popen (["ls", "/tmp"]) >> >> should work. >> > > Why should I need to set shell=True? I'm not globbing anything. The > second case still fails: > > >>>> proc = subprocess.Popen (["/usr/bin/ls" "/tmp"]) >>>> This line fails because of a typo. There needs to be a comma between the two list elements. Without the comma, this becomes
proc = subprocess.Popen (["/usr/bin/ls/tmp"]) which obviously fails. Gary Herron > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line 542, in > __init__ > errread, errwrite) > File "/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib/python2.4/subprocess.py", line 975, in > _execute_child > raise child_exception > OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory > > Thx, > > Skip > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list