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

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Sorry for not being explicit enough. I am aware that this would work if I called python.exe path-to-script.py with shell=False.

In my Python program, I parse an XML file like the one I have included below. Then I loop through the paths of the apps listed in it and run them by calling something like this:

for app_path in app_paths:
    args = shlex.split(app_path.replace("\\", "\\\\"))
    args = [arg.replace("\\\\", "\\") for arg in args]
    args[0] = os.path.expandvars(args[0])
    subprocess.Popen(args, shell='__WXMSW__' in wx.PlatformInfo)

I want users to be able to enter paths in the XML file exactly the way they would be entered in a Windows shortcut. Since it is possible to make a Windows shortcut for path-to-script.py without the python.exe in front of it and have it open in its own command prompt, I want to be able to do the same thing in my XML file, but this is what I cannot figure out.

By the way, is there a simpler way to use shlex.split and return valid Windows paths than the way I am doing (as shown above)?

Thank you.

-- Timothy

*** Contents of app_list.xml below ***

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<apps>
  <app name="Mozilla Firefox">%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe</app>
  <app name="Mozilla Thunderbird">%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe</app>
  <app name="LibreOffice Writer">%ProgramFiles%\LibreOffice 4\program\swriter.exe "C:\Users\Timothy\Documents\myfile.odt"</app>
  <app name="**Python script**">C:\Users\Timothy\Documents\Python\myscript.py</app>
</apps>

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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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