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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: how to use subprocess to execute an exe with args and an output
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:58:19 -0500
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On 1/30/2013 1:11 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 2013-01-30 17:15, noydb wrote:
>> I am looking for some guidance on using subprocess to execute an EXE
>> with arguments and an output.  The below code works in that it returns
>> a 0 exit code, but no output file is created.  I have tried a few
>> different versions of this code (used Popen instead, some
>> stderr/stdout), but no luck.  Can anyone offer an explanation or
>> suggestion?  (GPSBabel is freeware)
>> Python 2.7 on windows7 64-bit
>>
>> import subprocess
>> subprocess.call([r"C:\Program Files (x86)\GPSBabel\gpsbabel.exe",
>>                  "-i", "gdb", "-f", r"C:\Temp\GDBdata\testgps28.gdb",
>>                  "-o", "gpx", r"C:\Temp\gpx\test28output.gpx"])
>>
>> If I use this below, I get a returncode of 1, exit code of 0.
>> import subprocess
>> x = subprocess.Popen([r"C:\Program Files (x86)\GPSBabel\gpsbabel.exe",
>>                  "-i", "gdb", "-f", r"C:\Temp\GDBdata\testgps28.gdb",
>>                  "-o", "gpx", r"C:\Temp\gpx\test28output.gpx",
>>                  "shell=True", "stdout=subprocess.PIPE",
>> "stderr=subprocess.PIPE"])
>>
>> x.wait()
>> print x.returncode
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help
>>
> The second example is incorrect. The parts starting from "shell" are
> supposed to be further arguments for Popen itself, not something passed
> to "gpsbabel.exe":
>
> x = subprocess.Popen([r"C:\Program Files (x86)\GPSBabel\gpsbabel.exe",
>                   "-i", "gdb", "-f", r"C:\Temp\GDBdata\testgps28.gdb",
>                   "-o", "gpx", r"C:\Temp\gpx\test28output.gpx"],
>                   shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
>                   stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
>

and it is apparently best to not use shell=True unless actually needed 
for shell processing, which I do not think is the case here.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy