[docs] trouble with os.system

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Ruben,
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Sandro

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Ruben Nielsen <ruben.nielsen at mosek.com> wrote:
> Hello, I've been trying to build a python module that needs to call an
> external script.
>
> I have tried both with os.system() and subprocess.call()
> Trouble is, both of them return value 0 meaning 'they succesfully ran the
> script', however, the script isn't run properly.
>
> os.system('/var/www/lmcrypt -i '+lic_out_loc+licfilename+' -o
> '+lic_out_loc+licfilename+'final')
> call([/var/www/lmcrypt,'-i',lic_out_loc+licfilename,'-o',lic_out_loc+licfilename+'final'])
>
> when the script lmcrypt is run from any user through the terminal, the
> output file is generated successfully, but when the call is invoked through
> python, only empty files are generated. With what i've checked, it looks
> like it must be a problem within python.
>
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