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Re: Calling python script in dos and passing arguments

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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:14 AM, PEnergy <prquinn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am trying to write a python script that, when called from the DOS prompt, will call another python script and pass it input variables.  My current code will open the other python script but doesn't seem to pass it any values:
>
> import os,sys,subprocess
> subprocess.Popen(['python.exe','C:\NDEX\GRE2\uip\uip_20.py','t3c*'])
>
> Am I missing something or is this type of call not possible through DOS?

1. Backslash is an escape character in Python strings (e.g. "\n" =
newline). You should therefore double-up on your backslashes. (Your
exact string just so happens to work due to a misfeature regarding how
invalid backslash escapes are handled.)
2. Glob/wildcard ("*") expansion is done by the shell, but
subprocess.Popen does not use the shell by default (for good reason!).
Use the `glob` library to do the expansion yourself, in Python:
http://docs.python.org/2/library/glob.html

Cheers,
Chris

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Calling python script in dos and passing arguments PEnergy <prquinn@gmail.com> - 2013-04-16 07:14 -0700
  Re: Calling python script in dos and passing arguments Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2013-04-16 12:10 -0700
    Re: Calling python script in dos and passing arguments Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-04-16 19:19 +0000
    Re: Calling python script in dos and passing arguments Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-04-16 22:32 -0700
  Re: Calling python script in dos and passing arguments Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-04-16 13:25 -0600

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