Subprocess or Process or OMG!!

[Robert Kern]

rh0dium wrote:

> Needless to say this is much more complex than what I was "hoping" for.
>  Has anyone solved this in a generic approach..
> 
>     #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
>     import os,sys,string
>     import subprocess
> 
>     argc = len(sys.argv)
> 
>     # Yes I move all exe's to the .bin direcotory
>     sys.argv[0]=os.path.join(os.getcwd() + "/.bin/" +
> os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]))
> 
>     cmd = string.join(sys.argv," ")
>     subprocess.Popen( cmd )
> 
> This has several problems - least of which args aren't working....  Has
> anyone really tried this approach?

Did you read the documentation? It explains how to pass the command line (hint:
it's a list, not a string).

  http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco