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Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows

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Thanks again for your help. I tried something similar to what you suggested:

def run_app(self, app_path):
    args = shlex.split(app_path.replace("\\", "\\\\"))
    args = [arg.replace("\\\\", "\\") for arg in args]
    args[0] = os.path.expandvars(args[0])
    try:
        if pywin32:
            exe = win32api.FindExecutable(args[0])[1]
            if exe != os.path.abspath(args[0]):
                args.insert(0, exe)
        subprocess.Popen(args)
    except Exception:
        return False
    return True

where pywin32 is a global variable defined earlier in my program based on whether or not the win32api module is available.
This code generally works quite well, but with one problem. I have in my XML file a line like this:

<app name="Notepad++" checked="false">%ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\notepad++.exe C:\Users\Timothy\Documents\Python\StartupPlus\apps.xml</app>

Within the try statement, the variable 'args' contains this list, as expected:

['C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe', 'C:\Users\Timothy\Documents\Python\StartupPlus\apps.xml']

But the 'exe' variable returned by win32api.FindExecutable is not what I would expect:

C:\PROGRA~2\NOTEPA~1\NOTEPA~1.EXE

Because of this, the boolean comparison:

if exe != os.path.abspath(args[0]):

returns True when it should return False, since it is comparing a short (MS-DOS) path name with a long path name.
Should I use win32file.GetLongPathName to fix this problem, or do you know of a better solution?

-- Timothy

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Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows ps16thypresenceisfullnessofjoy@gmail.com - 2014-05-26 17:03 -0700
  Re:Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-05-27 03:20 -0400
  Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2014-05-26 23:38 -0700
    Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows ps16thypresenceisfullnessofjoy@gmail.com - 2014-05-27 16:01 -0700
      Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-05-28 06:08 +0100
        Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows ps16thypresenceisfullnessofjoy@gmail.com - 2014-05-28 13:22 -0700
      Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-05-28 20:46 +0100
        Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows ps16thypresenceisfullnessofjoy@gmail.com - 2014-05-28 13:46 -0700
          Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-05-29 12:41 +0100
            Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows ps16thypresenceisfullnessofjoy@gmail.com - 2014-05-29 12:21 -0700
              Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-06-01 17:31 +0100
                Re: Command prompt not shown when running Python script with subprocess on Windows ps16thypresenceisfullnessofjoy@gmail.com - 2014-06-04 13:25 -0700

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