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Re: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise.

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Date 2013-05-27 18:28 +1000
Subject Re: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise.
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.2244.1369643321.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Could you provide the *actual* commands you're using, rather than the generic "program1" and "program2" placeholders? It's *very* common for people to get the tokenization of a command line wrong (see the Note box in http://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen for some relevant advice).
>>
> Hi Chris, first of all thanks for the help. Unfortunately I can't provide the actual commands because are tools that are not publicly available.
> I think I get the tokenization right, though.. the problem is not that the programs don't run.. it is just that sometimes I get that error..

Will it violate privacy / NDA to post the command line? Even if we
can't actually replicate your system, we may be able to see something
from the commands given.

ChrisA

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Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-05-24 07:04 -0700
  Re: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-05-26 03:31 -0700
  Re: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2013-05-26 14:05 -0700
    Re: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-05-26 16:58 -0700
      RE: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-27 03:14 +0300
        Re: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2013-05-29 19:39 +0200
          RE: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-29 22:31 +0300
          Re: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-05-30 08:18 +1000
      Re: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-27 18:28 +1000
        Re: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-05-27 04:33 -0700
      Re: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2013-05-29 10:17 -0700
        Re: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 02:28 -0700
          Re: Piping processes works with 'shell = True' but not otherwise. Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-05-31 11:52 +0200

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