On 17/11/2010 01:37, Brett Bowman wrote:
I'm spawning a subprocess to fix some formating errors with a library of
PDFs with pdftk:
try:
sp = subprocess.Popen('pdftk.exe "%s" output %s' % (pdfFile,
outputFile))
sp.wait()
del sp
except Exception, e:
return "Unable to open file: %s with error: %s" % (pdfFile, str(e))
And then I test the result:
try:
pdf_handle = open(outputFile, "rb")
pdf_pypdf = PdfFileReader(pdf_handle)
del pdf_pypdf
del pdf_handle
except Exception, e:
return "Unable to open file: %s with error: %s" % (outputFile,
str(e))
Both of which appear to work. But when I try to delete the original
pdfFile, I get an error message saying that the file is still in use.
if I use:
sp = subprocess.Popen('rm "%s"' % pdfFile)
sp.wait()
I get the message - the standard error message from rm
and if I use:
cwd = os.getcwd()
os.remove(cwd + "\\" + pdfFile)
I get "WindowsError: [Error 32]" saying much the same thing.
What am I missing? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Details:
Python 2.6
Windows XP
Try Process Explorer, available from Microsoft at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
and use Find. That will tell you what has it open.
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