[issue20894] COMSPEC with multiple paths breaks subprocess.call
New submission from Elja van Tol: I tried a simple console command: import subprocess subprocess.call([dir], shell=True) Which failed with an WindowsError 2, (could not find file) After much googling i found out that this is caused by os.environ['COMSPEC'] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20330385/cannot-find-the-file-specified-when-using-subprocess-calldir-shell-true-in#comment30370433_20335954) At first my COMSPEC was: C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;C:\Users\welja\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\phpunit\phpunit;C:\Python27; I added ;%SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe but that failed. I then changed COMSPEC to only contain %SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe and that worked. ( Please fix this for others like me, users stuck on windows with no knowlegde of Python who just try to get Fabric to work to deploy some PHP sites :) ) -- components: Windows messages: 213234 nosy: elja priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: COMSPEC with multiple paths breaks subprocess.call type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue20894 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue20894] COMSPEC with multiple paths breaks subprocess.call
Changes by Yury Selivanov yselivanov...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +brian.curtin ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue20894 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue20894] COMSPEC with multiple paths breaks subprocess.call
R. David Murray added the comment: This was a misconfiguration of your system. It is not a bug in Python. (Unless can find a microsoft reference that says that COMPSPEC can contain more than one path? I don't think you will; see, eg: http://superuser.com/questions/446595/is-it-valid-for-comspec-to-have-multiple-entries) -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: - invalid stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue20894 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue20894] COMSPEC with multiple paths breaks subprocess.call
Elja van Tol added the comment: I stand corrected, now i have to find out why my comspec was filled with nonsense. Sorry for the trouble! -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue20894 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
