Hello Gentelmen, the suggestion to add the optional second parameter fixed the problem, spawnl now works on the Win 7 computer I'm responsible for (with Python 2.2). So the suggested cause seems to be right.
Thank you for the great help! Cheers, Nenad On 26 Okt., 21:20, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 10/26/2011 10:38 AM, Tim Golden wrote: > > > On 26/10/2011 02:11, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> OP reports 2.6 with XP works. > > > Where do you see that, Terry? (Or was there an offlist email?) > > The first message ofhttp://bugs.python.org/issue8036 > "Python 2.6 is however happy and just reports invalid arg." > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list