Re: help needed with subprocess, pipes and parameters
nuffi, Have you tried running your piped commands c:\Programs\bob\bob.exe -x -y C:\text\path\to some\file.txt | c:\Programs\kate\kate.exe -A 2 --dc Print Media Is Dead --da Author --dt Title --hf Times --bb 14 --aa --font Ariel - C:\rtf\path\to some\file.rtf in a single instance of subprocess? Start it up and use the poll method to wait until the subprocess has terminated. Then open the output file to get the results. My recent (and single, hence limited, experience) of using subprocess indicated that the spawned process may take a little time to start up. Try bob = subprocess.Popen([bobPath, '-x', '-y', docpath], stdout = subprocess.PIPE,) time.sleep( 0.5 ) #experiment with the delay kate = subprocess.Popen([katePath, A, dc, da, dt, hf, fn, bb, path], stdin = bob.stdout, stdout = subprocess.PIPE,) Never looked under the subprocess hood but maybe there's a race condition with the kate subprocess starting before the bob subprocess has set up its stdout. It's unlikely but so easy to check with a sleep between the subprocesses it has to be worth a go. John On 13/07/2012 08:34, nuffi wrote: If I copy and paste the following command into a command window, it does what I need. c:\Programs\bob\bob.exe -x -y C:\text\path\to some\file.txt | c:\Programs\kate\kate.exe -A 2 --dc Print Media Is Dead --da Author --dt Title --hf Times --bb 14 --aa --font Ariel - C:\rtf\path\to some\file.rtf My mission is to recreate this command within a python script, so that I can pass a bunch of different parameters into it, and use it as a batch over a bunch of different papers. http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html seems to be the thing to use in python 2.7.3. I also checked out http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/subprocess/. My attempts run fine, create destination folders ok and prints done but don't actually seem to process the file. Is there some way to get subprocess to output the command it's generating so I can see what I'm doing wrong, rather than just the output of the command? How can I chekc that kate's opening the pipe left from bob?Bob may take some time to execute, will that matter? The code I came up with looks like this: import os, glob, subprocess sourceDir = c:\\text\\ destDir = c:\\rtf\\ bobPath = C:\\Programs\\bob\\bob.exe katePath = C:\\Programs\\kate\\kate.exe def get_new_path(doc): blah = doc.replace(sourceDir, destDir) if not os.path.isdir(blah): os.makedirs(blah) rtf = blah.replace('.txt', '.rtf') pathString = '- ' + (os.path.join(rtf)) + '' return(pathString) def convert_doc(doc): dc = '--dc Print Media Is Dead' da = '--da Author' dt = '--dt Title' hf = '--hf Times' fn = '--font Ariel' bb = '--bb 14' docpath = '' + (os.path.join(doc)) + '' path = get_new_path(doc) A = '-A 2' bob = subprocess.Popen([bobPath, '-x', '-y', docpath], stdout = subprocess.PIPE,) kate = subprocess.Popen([katePath, A, dc, da, dt, hf, fn, bb, path], stdin = bob.stdout, stdout = subprocess.PIPE,) end_of_pipe = kate.stdout #print kate #subprocess.call(['echo', Test peice of text, '', 'D:\\output.txt']) for line in end_of_pipe: print '\t', blah.strip() #raw_input() return('done') test = convert_doc(c:\\text\\path to\\some\\specific text file.txt) print(blah) == Thanks for looking :-) --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to n...@netfront.net --- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: help needed with subprocess, pipes and parameters
On Friday, July 13, 2012, nuffi wrote: If I copy and paste the following command into a command window, it does what I need. c:\Programs\bob\bob.exe -x -y C:\text\path\to some\file.txt | c:\Programs\kate\kate.exe -A 2 --dc Print Media Is Dead --da Author --dt Title --hf Times --bb 14 --aa --font Ariel - C:\rtf\path\to some\file.rtf My mission is to recreate this command within a python script, so that I can pass a bunch of different parameters into it, and use it as a batch over a bunch of different papers. snip The code I came up with looks like this: import os, glob, subprocess sourceDir = c:\\text\\ destDir = c:\\rtf\\ bobPath = C:\\Programs\\bob\\bob.exe katePath = C:\\Programs\\kate\\kate.exe def get_new_path(doc): blah = doc.replace(sourceDir, destDir) if not os.path.isdir(blah): os.makedirs(blah) rtf = blah.replace('.txt', '.rtf') pathString = '- ' + (os.path.join(rtf)) + '' return(pathString) def convert_doc(doc): dc = '--dc Print Media Is Dead' da = '--da Author' dt = '--dt Title' hf = '--hf Times' fn = '--font Ariel' bb = '--bb 14' docpath = '' + (os.path.join(doc)) + '' path = get_new_path(doc) A = '-A 2' bob = subprocess.Popen([bobPath, '-x', '-y', docpath], stdout = subprocess.PIPE,) kate = subprocess.Popen([katePath, A, dc, da, dt, hf, fn, bb, path], stdin = bob.stdout, stdout = subprocess.PIPE,) Your tokenization of the command is wrong. Read the Note box in the subprocess docs for guidance on how to get it right: http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#popen-constructor Cheers, Chris via iPhone -- Cheers, Chris -- http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
help needed with subprocess, pipes and parameters
If I copy and paste the following command into a command window, it does what I need. c:\Programs\bob\bob.exe -x -y C:\text\path\to some\file.txt | c:\Programs\kate\kate.exe -A 2 --dc Print Media Is Dead --da Author --dt Title --hf Times --bb 14 --aa --font Ariel - C:\rtf\path\to some\file.rtf My mission is to recreate this command within a python script, so that I can pass a bunch of different parameters into it, and use it as a batch over a bunch of different papers. http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html seems to be the thing to use in python 2.7.3. I also checked out http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/subprocess/. My attempts run fine, create destination folders ok and prints done but don't actually seem to process the file. Is there some way to get subprocess to output the command it's generating so I can see what I'm doing wrong, rather than just the output of the command? How can I chekc that kate's opening the pipe left from bob?Bob may take some time to execute, will that matter? The code I came up with looks like this: import os, glob, subprocess sourceDir = c:\\text\\ destDir = c:\\rtf\\ bobPath = C:\\Programs\\bob\\bob.exe katePath = C:\\Programs\\kate\\kate.exe def get_new_path(doc): blah = doc.replace(sourceDir, destDir) if not os.path.isdir(blah): os.makedirs(blah) rtf = blah.replace('.txt', '.rtf') pathString = '- ' + (os.path.join(rtf)) + '' return(pathString) def convert_doc(doc): dc = '--dc Print Media Is Dead' da = '--da Author' dt = '--dt Title' hf = '--hf Times' fn = '--font Ariel' bb = '--bb 14' docpath = '' + (os.path.join(doc)) + '' path = get_new_path(doc) A = '-A 2' bob = subprocess.Popen([bobPath, '-x', '-y', docpath], stdout = subprocess.PIPE,) kate = subprocess.Popen([katePath, A, dc, da, dt, hf, fn, bb, path], stdin = bob.stdout, stdout = subprocess.PIPE,) end_of_pipe = kate.stdout #print kate #subprocess.call(['echo', Test peice of text, '', 'D:\\output.txt']) for line in end_of_pipe: print '\t', blah.strip() #raw_input() return('done') test = convert_doc(c:\\text\\path to\\some\\specific text file.txt) print(blah) == Thanks for looking :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list