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On 12/11/2011 10:39 PM, jyoung79@kc.rr.com wrote:
> And another question - why can't I use the tilde as a shortcut to the home directory?
Because subprocess doesn't use the shell (which is what expands the
tilde to the invoking user's home directory). I recommend using
os.path.join and os.environ anyway.

p = subprocess.Popen(['du', '-sh', os.path.join(os.environ['home'],
'.Trash')], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

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