Calling subprocess with arguments

Tyler Laing trinioler at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 12:30:48 EDT 2009


Sorry, XD. I'll ask the VLC people if they happen to know why VLC won't open
up the remote interface.

-Tyler

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:00:28 +0600
> Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:28:17 -0700
> > Tyler Laing <trinioler at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks mike, the idea that maybe some of the info isn't being passed is
> > > certainly interesting.
> > >
> > > Here's the output of os.environ and sys.argv:
> > >
> > ...
> >
> > I'm afraid these doesn't make much sense without the output from the
> > second results, from py itself. My suggestion was just to compare them
> > - pop the py shell, eval the outputs into two sets, do the diff and
> > you'll see it at once.
> > If there's an empty set then I guess it's pretty safe to assume that
> > python creates subprocess in the same way the shell does.
>
> Just thought of one more really simple thing I've missed: vlc might
> expect it's remote to work with tty, so when py shoves it a pipe
> instead, it automatically switches to non-interactive mode.
>
> You can remedy that a bit by superclassing subprocess.Popen, replacing
> pipes with pty, but they are quite hard to work with, prehaps pexpect
> module would be of some use there:
>
>  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pexpect/
>
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