On 7/2/2014 12:33 AM, Tim Roberts wrote:
Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
It does not work on Windows. As I reported on
http://bugs.python.org/issue8631, msg222053,
subprocess.check_output("pyflakes -h")
works in the interpreter and Idle shell, while
s.check_output("pyflakes c:\programs\python34\lib\turtle.py")
gives bizarre output in the interpreter and hangs in the idle shell, as
does the code above.
Right. What do you think \t is in a string? (Hint: it's only one byte.)
Yes, how could I forget that. But my use of a string literal here does
not explain the problems when used string variables, as generated by os.
I should try printing out the list of args passed to subprocess.
While remembering what \t is explains the command interpreter output
(recursing through /lib), it does not explain the difference when
invoked from Idle. There seems to be some bad interaction when calling
subprocesses in the user subprocess.
You need to use
s.check_output("pyflakes c:\\programs\\python34\\lib\\turtle.py")
or
s.check_output(r"pyflakes c:\programs\python34\lib\turtle.py")
Now I get "Command 'pyflakes c:\programs\python34\lib\turtle.py' returns
non-zero exit status 1" on both. On Idle, as least, a command-prompt
window is flashed/displayed. It makes no sense to me that in the command
interpreter,
'pyflakes c:\\programs\\python34\\lib' works and
'pyflakes c:\\programs\\python34\\lib\\turtle.py' returns status 1.
whereas both (with quotes elided and undoubled \) work at the command
prompt.
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