ps16thypresenceisfullnessof...@gmail.com Wrote in message: > I have written a Python script with a wxPython GUI that uses subprocess.Popen > to open a list of files that the user provides. One of my users would like to > be able to run a Python script with my application. The Python script he is > trying to run uses the command line and gets keyboard input from the user > several times. > > The problem is that if the Python script is run on Windows with > subprocess.Popen, no command prompt is shown (my GUI application is a .pyw > file). The user's script runs silently but then does not quit because it is > waiting for input, but there is no way for the input to be given, since there > is no command prompt visible. > > I think this may be related to the fact that I am calling subprocess.Popen > with shell=True. I tried calling it with shell=False (the default), but then > I got an error that the file is not a valid Win32 application. > > I would appreciate any help with this problem. > > -- Timothy >
If you want to use shell=False, you need to specify the executable correctly. Since you're on Windows, the executable is named python.exe, not myscript. py If you still get errors, you need to get a lot more explicit. Copy/paste, not paraphrase. -- DaveA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list