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On Tuesday 2013 November 19 08:19, Gene Heskett wrote:
> You are suggesting I edit /usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py?

You should use either

   subprocess.Popen(["ls", "-l"])
or   

   subprocess.Popen("ls -l")

The argument to the first is a two element list.   
The argument to the second is a string.  

You used "ls -l" as the process to run, thus 
" OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory"

See the subprocess documentation.
 
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