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Re: subprocess call is not waiting.

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2012-09-14 10:38 -0700
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Subject Re: subprocess call is not waiting.
From Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com>

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On Friday, September 14, 2012 8:22:44 AM UTC-4, pauls...@gmail.com wrote:
> os.system worked fine, and I found something in another section of code that was causing the "Too many open errors." (I was fooled, because output from subprocess call didn't seem to be coming out until the open files error.
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> I'll go back and play with subprocess.call more, since os.system works. That's interesting about using shlex at run time. Is that just for the sake of computational cost?

I never got the hang of subprocess, either. I ended up wrapping os.system in a python file and using subprocess to call that with:

subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, 'Wrapper.py'])

This works for me. I'm using Windows 7.

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subprocess call is not waiting. paulstaten@gmail.com - 2012-09-13 08:17 -0700
  Re: subprocess call is not waiting. MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-09-13 16:35 +0100
  Re: subprocess call is not waiting. woooee@gmail.com - 2012-09-13 10:24 -0700
    Re: subprocess call is not waiting. Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-09-14 10:52 +0200
  Re: subprocess call is not waiting. Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-09-13 22:27 -0700
  Re: subprocess call is not waiting. paulstaten@gmail.com - 2012-09-14 05:22 -0700
    Re: subprocess call is not waiting. Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2012-09-14 10:38 -0700
    Re: subprocess call is not waiting. Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-09-14 21:02 -0700
      Re: subprocess call is not waiting. paulstaten@gmail.com - 2012-09-15 05:59 -0700
        Re: subprocess call is not waiting. andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-09-18 14:54 +0100
        Re: subprocess call is not waiting. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-09-18 15:20 -0400
        Re: subprocess call is not waiting. andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-09-19 11:26 +0100
          Re: subprocess call is not waiting. Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-09-19 15:23 +0200
            Re: subprocess call is not waiting. Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2012-09-19 11:57 -0400
            Re: subprocess call is not waiting. andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-09-19 17:34 +0100
              Re: subprocess call is not waiting. Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-09-19 19:31 +0200

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