Re: Issue with subprocess Module

2009-04-07 Thread Dave Angel
tarun wrote: Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script (test.py) in the same folder. And executed

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

2009-04-07 Thread Tim Golden
Dave Angel wrote: tarun wrote: Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script (test.py) in the same folder.

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

2009-04-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 07:53 -0400, Dave Angel wrote: subprocess.Popen() is expecting the name of a program, which should normally have an extension of .exe You're handing it a .bat file, which is not executable. It only executes in the context of a command interpreter (shell), such

Issue with subprocess Module

2009-04-07 Thread tarun
Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script (test.py) in the same folder. And executed 'test.py' (Please

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

2009-04-07 Thread Tim Golden
tarun wrote: Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script (test.py) in the same folder. And executed

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

2009-04-07 Thread MRAB
Tim Golden wrote: tarun wrote: Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script (test.py) in the same folder.

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

2009-04-07 Thread Dave Angel
Tim Golden wrote: div class=moz-text-flowed style=font-family: -moz-fixedDave Angel wrote: tarun wrote: Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both,

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

2009-04-07 Thread R. David Murray
Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk wrote: tarun wrote: Hello All, I've a batch file to be invoke using a python script. The batch file has pause, and the time, I need to send some command to the batch file from my scripts. I placed both, the batch file (test.bat) and the python script

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

2009-04-07 Thread Tim Golden
Tim Golden wrote: So it looks as though the MS docs are simply wrong? I haven't tried it with ctypes or a native C program, but I can't see that they should be any different. If I get a chance later I'll knock something up in C. OK, copying the standard MS example for creating a process:

Re: Issue with subprocess Module

2009-04-07 Thread Tim Golden
Tim Golden wrote: Sounds reasonable, but isn't actually true. This works fine: code import subprocess open (t.bat, w).write (echo hello) subprocess.Popen (t.bat) /code TJG /div Dave Angel wrote: The docs of Popen() state that it uses CreateProcess() on Windows, so I didn't even try it.